Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:08:23 +0000 From: Michael Ossareh <michaelossareh@onetel.net.uk> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Abit SMP boards under FreeBSD (was Re: dnetc on xeon) Message-ID: <20021010100823.0a1e00ad.michaelossareh@onetel.net.uk> In-Reply-To: <20021010071825.GH539@woolridge.ca> References: <200210031237.g93CbmQR014892@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> <3375.1033650434@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021010071825.GH539@woolridge.ca>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 03:18:25 -0400 Dale Woolridge <dale-list-freebsd-smp@woolridge.org> wrote: > On 3-Oct-2002 15:07 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > | In message <200210031237.g93CbmQR014892@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>, Yo > | riaki FUJIMORI writes: > | > | >My question is if anybody of you have experienced similar symptom > | >on their xeon dual boxes. > | >In advance, thank you for your attention. > | > | Your hardware is not up to snuff. > | > | In order of probablity: > | > | 1. You were not by any chance overclocking ? > | > | 2. Is your powersupply sufficient ? > | > | 3. Is your cooling sufficient ? > > > I've been experiencing similar problems with my dual p3 (on a vp6) system. > I couldn't build a kernel, the world, and some ports (large ones usually). > I happened to be running one of the cpuburn port programs (burnBX) to see > if it would crap out; meanwhile I was building a kernel. I was able to > build the kernel without these strange compile errors. Also, burnBX would > die (exit status -1), but certainly not predictably. > > In my case, I'm not overclocking (and never have with this board), have > no powersupply problems, and have sufficient cooling (my cpus run at > about 30-33 celsius). > > A friend suggested disabling my L2 cache, which I did and all my compilation > problems have gone away. Of course, I still can't get SMP up and running, > but that's a whole other story (maybe another hardware issue). At this > point, I'm not sure if it's the processor itself (unlikely I'd guess) or > a mobo problem (more likely), so if anyone has suggestions I'd really > appreciate them. > -- > -Dale > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message My Abit BP6 had similar problems, but only whilst I was overclocking. Thanks to the great guys in #freebsd for advising me to unoverclock the compile problems went away. I believe the Abit VP6 and BP6 are quite similar and the chipset runs very hot when in SMP mode, so since its not a proper server board you might want to invest in some active cooling for your chipset (usually just has a green heat sink on it). Michael Ossareh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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