Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:41:21 +0530 From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death Message-ID: <4E1988D9.2010000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64F2085C-AC27-4498-8E33-48E7FE92CC9F@mac.com> 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>
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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,
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