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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:57:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: unexpected machine check on 5.0 alpha
Message-ID:  <20030116033841.N30783-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030115232831.A36961@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Wilko Bulte wrote:

> Time to check the fan for the CPU, and the air'tunnel' feeding the
> air to the heatsink. I had one come loose after servicing the machine.

I just got a similar crash:

	unexpected machine check:

	    mces    = 0x1
	    vector  = 0x670
	    param   = 0xfffffc0000004e10
	    pc      = 0xfffffc00004069bc
	    ra      = 0xfffffc00004069b4
	    curproc = 0xfffffc001f169200
	        pid = 23, comm = intr: sym1

	panic: machine check
	cpuid = 1;
	boot() called on cpu#1

	syncing disks, buffers remaining... panic: bdwrite: buffer is not busy
	cpuid = 1;
	boot() called on cpu#1
	Uptime: 19h27m51s

It's an Alphaserver 4100, dual 5/300 with 512 MB RAM and one power supply,
running 5.0-RC3 (kernel is GENERIC plus the line from ccd(4)).  I had been
trying to compile a few large things from the ports collection, Beonex for
example, and all the compilations had finished so the main task was "dd
if=zero of=da2" which had been running from /dev since a few minutes after
boot (only a 4 GB disk--I wonder why it's so slow).

	$ strings /tmp/4100-20030113-cu4.log | grep degrees
	System temperature is 23 degrees C
	System temperature is 23 degrees C
	System temperature is 23 degrees C
	System temperature is 23 degrees C
	System temperature is 24 degrees C

I was sitting next to it when it crashed, and I would have noticed if the
fans had stopped.  From earlier logs, I see that the temperature has
varied between 21 and 27 Celsius.  I don't know what it is now, but it
feels warmish when I'm wearing just a tee shirt.  There's a fan that
constantly blows air into the room, which points toward the back of the
computer.  Should I run the air conditioner more often?
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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