From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 12:45:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D322A16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.petanna.net (host81-136-58-113.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.136.58.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7184F43FE1 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:45:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.petanna.net [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd.petanna.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id hACKlOIe046472; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:47:27 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <3FB29C5C.6090803@circlesquared.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:47:24 +0000 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031102 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jaco H. van Tonder" References: <3FB20370.7060807@circlesquared.com> <099401c3a939$322ac680$3635a8c0@jaco> In-Reply-To: <099401c3a939$322ac680$3635a8c0@jaco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 865 probs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:45:16 -0000 Jaco, Thanks for this. Jaco H. van Tonder wrote: >For what its worth, I had a lot of problems on the I865P board, and It >boiled down to memory corruption. >The machine had lots of "random" crashes, meanng that they were not occuring >when I do something specific. >The machine startted to panic as soon as the load got high. >I took out the memory, and placed it into another slot and the machine is >cruising along happily now. > > I played with the memory slots as soon as the problems started, and found memtest would sometimes throw up huge numbers of errors, and sometimes none at all. FWIW slot 1 was the worst. But I suspect, no more than that, some other problem as well. >The other questions is what is the date of the -CURRENT tree that is giving >this problems? I can recall quite a few problems, which were fixed, that >could cause this problem. > > Nov 10. I ran cvsup at about 9:00am GMT. Peter Risdon.