From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 07:19:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF01106564A; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:19:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7300D8FC1A; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8E7Jm9V076802 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:49:54 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4C8A24F5.7040100@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:49:48 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4C89DE32.9050402@icyb.net.ua> <4C8A24F5.7040100@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam-Score: -2.51 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable Stable , "John H. Baldwin" Subject: Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:19:57 -0000 On 10/09/2010, at 22:00, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> uname is.. FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE = #6 >>> r202903M: Sun Jan 24 13:45:11 CST 2010 >>> darius@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET amd64 >=20 > Oh, I should have payed attention to the version. > I think that this is a known and resolved problem. > There is a hardware bug in AMD 10h processors that is triggered by = combination > of enabled MCA and FreeBSD superpages. > So, you either have to disable one of them or upgrade to a more recent = version. > The version you need is r206183. The latest stable/8 would do, = obviously. I'll try updating to stable/8 - I've been meaning to anyway. Just to find the spare time to do it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C