From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 28 12:25:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0143337BA76 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000628192505.KDRS26299.relay02@chello.nl>; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:25:05 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01759; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:25:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:25:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "brian j. peterson" Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't panic Message-ID: <20000628212522.B1596@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14682.14754.992194.72377@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from rbw@myplace.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:17:45PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:17:45PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > # What were you doing at the time of the crash? Is the machine > # properly cooled? > > at the time of the crash i had just started to compile netcat from the > ports collection. i compiled it successfully after the panic (and after > doing a "make distclean"). all the other stuff running was the same stuff > i have running normally (apache, ntpd, several irc clients, several > screen sessions, pine, sendmail). (btw, X wasn't running.) > > i guess "properly cooled" is kind of relative. it is sitting on my desk > in my bedroom in my apartment. the place is kept at ~80F. the box itself > runs without the top of the case on, so it is well-ventilated. i do know > that the CPU's heatsink will actually burn me if i touch it for more than > about half a second, but i don't think that is uncommon... esp. for older > alphas. The EV4-classic has a tendency to fry your fingers, correct. But try putting a fan in to cool it. I've seen *extremely* weird behaviour with overheating EV4 chips. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message