From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 10 11:10:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFFF1065676 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FC98FC1E for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so2643502pvg.13 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:10:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NvSmnlbrwYz8qxMlHec9R2FBT5bKWbCgrv9nnk5XwAg=; b=dZhKV/85tUfDVhesM+AOr78fbM5pQYoZBArGr250m1SbI3JqR/lgKGV0am19ykIaC+ 1LwXAqoOI91t2LX9YOPeRr0BgR1DYLVznR0meD5yitHdpAYMXQFKE/2HSvUR/En9ytKM sV/QkZ1W6ODweBK6AmORDA4Z1+A1Ez8UkVDlk= Received: by 10.68.33.38 with SMTP id o6mr5320757pbi.73.1310296251696; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([14.96.218.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x1sm7678904pbb.66.2011.07.10.04.10.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1988D9.2010000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:41:21 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 To: Chuck Swiger References: <20110709053404.B1FC910656AE@hub.freebsd.org> <4E18332F.1040805@gmail.com> <0C3600E5-1324-4852-894A-D29F3445660C@mac.com> <4E18805F.2000401@gmail.com> <64F2085C-AC27-4498-8E33-48E7FE92CC9F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <64F2085C-AC27-4498-8E33-48E7FE92CC9F@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:10:54 -0000 Hi Chuck, I ran memtest86+ by loading it from the loader prompt. It completed Pass 1 with no errors in about 45 minutes. While I'll re-run memtest86+ for at least 2 passes tonight, I more suspect bad blocks in my ffs slice. So I am planning to install sysutils/smartmontools and run smartctl on /dev/ad8s2 (the ffs slice). Is there any port for monitoring system thermals, particularly CPU ? Regards Manish Jain On 09-Jul-11 22:24, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD -8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight und er WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : apm_enable="NO" apmd_enable="NO" ACPI replaced APM around 2000. (I'm assuming you don't have a 11-year-old quad -core Phenom system, since AMD didn't make such processors until 2007 or 2008.) Regards,