From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 23: 3:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0516515366 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 23:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely7.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA15271; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:56:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by cicely7.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA06480; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA43913; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:04:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:04:08 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setiathome crashes 3.2? Message-ID: <19990628080407.A43878@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <199906280209.WAA76016@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199906280209.WAA76016@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I seem to recall seeing this someone (this may not be the > right list.) > > But - I downloaded the 3.2 Seti@home and starting running it > on a left-over 75mhz laptop I have. > > It seems to crash the laptop (silently lock it up, actually) > fairly quickly. > > Did I recall someone else mentioning that? > > Would everyone agree that it's not a "good thing" for a user-mode > program to be able to lock up the OS? > There are severall resons. One of them is that I got panics with a to high set MAXUSER in kernel options. I don't know if it's a problem with 3.2. The other possible reason might be a CPU overheating. CPUs used under FreeBSD are typicall suspended during idle-time - when running seti or other permanent running programms there is no idle time. I asume there are several more possbilities. But it sounds like there is something broken with your configuration. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message