From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 10:36:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED4637B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CEF43F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h27Iah7X000864; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:36:42 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: Lucas Holt Cc: Toomas Aas , Subject: Re: How to determine if cpu-cache is working? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030307193455.P856-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, at 13:15 [=GMT-0500], Lucas Holt wrote: > Is it possible that the processor is overheating instead of the cache > not working? I had a similar problem with a linux gaming server > running a Celeron 300mhz. The machine was very slow and sometimes > inconsistent. From my understanding, pentium chips 200mhz and up down > clock when they get to hot to prevent the processor from melting. This is possible, naturally. But how do I find out? I do not mind paying a visit to the machine, even if it costs me a day all in all. But I want to do it only once. Not 4 times. So I would like to find out from a distance _what_ to replace. I am asking too much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message