From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 03:51:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064D016A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 03:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC82B43D3F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 03:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/3.61) with ESMTP id i14BpoRv017370; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:51:50 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:51:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.50 References: <4020B672.9080304@it.su.se> In-Reply-To: <4020B672.9080304@it.su.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200402041251.50129.adridg@cs.kun.nl> cc: Janne Johansson Subject: Re: shaky support or my system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:51:54 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:08, Janne Johansson wrote: > I have an amd64-3000 on a Abit motherboard, 1G ram, satadisk and it > works nice enough on 32-bitmode winxp, but I can't get it to be stable That's pretty consumer grade - just like what i have (k8vdeluxe, 3200, 1G r= am,=20 sata on the promise controller).=20 > in either fbsd5.2 nor the recent 5.2.1RC. One of the things that makes > it crash for sure is the /usr/ports/benchmarks/ubench program. It does Don't run that, it'll just tell you that the system is only marginally fast= er=20 than the athlon XP it replaces.=20 > I thought it could have been the sk-ethernet that was the culprit, since > post-installation-stuff for me includes getting bash/emacs, cvs:ing and sk ethernet was a problem in early snapshots - I started with one of David'= s=20 snapshots from early november, dropped in an xl card (3c509) , cvsupped to= =20 =2D -CURRENT, built that, and all was fine. > Serial console to pick up crash dumps? Turn on more verbose crash-report Serial console is always a good idea. Expesially when things crash under X. > stuff somehow? build an even more recent kernel? Turn off smp-support (I SMP is mandatory in -CURRENT and doesn't affect UP systems. > have only one cpu) or power-saving stuff in the bios? Turn on > Cool-n-quiet (some mhz-altering stuff as I gather) or move from SATA to The power-saving stuff in the BIOS can be very tricky. I had endless lockup= s=20 when C&Q was turned on - nice and quiet, but max. uptime of about 12 hours.= =20 Since I've switched that off again and just let the CPU cooler run at max=20 speed all the time and don't fiddle with memory timings or voltages, it run= s=20 much better. 12:51PM up 14 days, 13:14, 4 users, load averages: 1.35, 1.26, 0.99 Not spectacular, but hey. It means it was 14 days ago that I last accessed = the=20 cdrom, which is a sure-fire way to panic the system. =2D --=20 pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot The users that I support would double-click on a landmine to see what it di= d. =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAINzWdqzuAf6io/4RAgfPAJ4lrFREhzZj5jP/HF1y0HYoPSQPqQCdEFJB l8BI/ryoE0Yx/7/+ibf1714=3D =3DVihN =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----