From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 7 14:24:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C3B37B42C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00573; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200105072124.OAA00573@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon In-Reply-To: <86vgncdgwj.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> from Eric Jacoboni at "May 7, 1 10:48:44 pm" To: jaco@teaser.fr (Eric Jacoboni) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > "Jonathan" == Jonathan Belson writes: > > Jonathan> Yes, that's what seems strange. My heatsink is quite large > Jonathan> and feels cool to touch. I'm wondering if my PSU is being > Jonathan> overstretched since it's 250W > > Mine is 300W. But i think the whole box will power out, not freeze, if > it was a power problem. Not necessarily. When a switching power supply gets over (or near) its limit, it starts generating ripple in the DC power lines. It doesn't shut down unless it has overload protection built in, and even then only if the overload is significant (like, 20%). -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message