From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 03:45:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB25816A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:45:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CD243D54 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:45:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A06F651385; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:52:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:52:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Crist?v?o Dalla Costa Message-ID: <20041209035217.GA7339@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41B79A84.5010909@desnormal.com.br> <20041209003713.GA26248@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41B7A740.2040601@desnormal.com.br> <6.2.0.14.0.20041208201757.054b2bc8@64.7.153.2> <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:45:48 -0000 --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0200, Crist?v?o Dalla Costa wrote: > Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the= =20 > BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a= =20 > core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half=20 > the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition=20 > with at least the same size, and I don't have the time to fiddle with=20 > partitions now. You can limit the amount of RAM used by the system at boot time with the hw.physmem tunable, set in /boot/loader.conf. Set it to something smaller than your largest swap partition and dump there. Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBt8vxWry0BWjoQKURAqjlAKCMu8QUGWrXed5JXf/oMH08s9EqywCfYmvb ao6vfTyDB5Sh11O/l7cgsfQ= =+RyX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--