From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 11:16:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DA737B422 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 11:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4EIGHc20090; Mon, 14 May 2001 11:16:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105141816.f4EIGHc20090@ptavv.es.net> To: Doug Hardie Cc: kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New installation failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 00:15:36 PDT." Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:16:17 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug, This is almost certainly a thermal problem, quite possibly the CPU. I also have a K6 running at 450 MHz and it would not do a buildworld after I updated from 3-Stable to 4-Stable. (Yes, this was a while ago.) I even did the trick of monitoring the temperature with healthd and interrupting the build when it started to get too high. (You might want to try running healthd.) I fixed the problem by improving the heat sink on the CPU with heat-sink grease. (You can get it at Radio Shack or any decent electronics supply.) A THIN layer on the top of the CPU and the bottom of the heat sink was all I needed. Clocking the chip at 400 MHz does about the same think, but I am still running at 450, so I prefer my way. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message