From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 13 3:11:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from weirdo.netcraft.com (weirdo.netcraft.com [195.92.95.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BAB37B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sketchy@localhost) by weirdo.netcraft.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1DBAxN26557; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:10:59 GMT (envelope-from sketchy) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:10:59 +0000 From: Jonathan Perkin To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Constantly crashing SMP box Message-ID: <20010213111059.H358@netcraft.com> References: <20010212135705.F358@netcraft.com> <20010212140801.A46354@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010212141255.G358@netcraft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212141255.G358@netcraft.com>; from sketchy@netcraft.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:12:55pm +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.2-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:12:55pm +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:08:01pm +0000, David Malone wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:57:05PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > > > > > The ram is brand new, but the CPU's have been taken from > > > previously-working boxes. > > > > Were the previous boxes SMP? We had a problem with a machine > > running fine un UP mode but died within minutes in SMP mode. > > The problem turned out to be heat related and getting better > > fans fixed the problem. > > No they weren't, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try and see > what happens - odd that it only affects the 2nd cpu though. Ok, it's now 20 minutes into a make -j16 buildworld after adding fans :) Considering it would die just by giving it a strange look earlier, I'd say this was an improvement. Thanks again for the suggestion. -- Jonathan Perkin +44 (0)1225 867914 Netcraft Ltd, Bradford on Avon, UK - http://www.netcraft.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message