From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Oct 10 2: 3:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E625537B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB4C43E9C for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelossareh@onetel.net.uk) Received: from dayjah.demon.co.uk ([62.49.68.53] helo=maggie.mossareh.home.org) by anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17zZDo-0001cM-0U for freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:03:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:08:23 +0000 From: Michael Ossareh 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 03:18:25 -0400 Dale Woolridge 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