From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 20 18:15:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A5B37B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fpsn.net (control.fpsn.net [63.224.69.60]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA62788; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:13:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from cfaber@fpsn.net) Message-ID: <39C96083.453F7413@fpsn.net> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:12:35 -0600 From: Colin Faber Reply-To: cfaber@fpsn.net Organization: fpsn.net, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSD Cc: Chris Dillon , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Value ram? BSD wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Chris Dillon wrote: > > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem. > > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard > > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory > > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS. If you STILL have > > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on > > something else. The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is > > when overclocking the processor. You aren't overclocking those > > processors are you? > > Are you saying all 3 sticks are bad at 133MHz (KA7) and one > or more is bad at 66MHz (BP6)? The likelihood of that is extremely small. > Also, a 512MB stick of RAM would cost me $1,600CAD. Sigh. That's not > going to happen anytime soon. Furthermore, I stress tested each stick of > RAM, with make -j64 buildworld. Nothing failed there. The panics > happenned when the system was just doing its normal tasks. I'll try to > post more detailed reports (including crash dumps). > > --Bart > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message