From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 17:34:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B836C106566B; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f200.google.com (mail-qy0-f200.google.com [209.85.221.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3948FC16; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk38 with SMTP id 38so3378867qyk.9 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ETkUSyIePGIa0TxOmJFxhaxSNd+HD9btq2prVRzdLpE=; b=NE9T0fEicGvaI8+peSoViaOgHsgbejV9DaqDctwZUkksmZXO2S4/5E/Ac9+qgG9t2G EcDcnDr1EBBEsigY+Iu8EV/XvlZSWLtSyMyIx79mOS/ZOXim6EG0X7GrOY9kKp+d2yG/ kXtS0RQ/ifxSZIdOqPcN9AAI9JNXlTW2obLpk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=e7A++bRAJYnCq5PwQji2NBBZxmTdK358b5SkKBJV5IBOfjaKp3q1Bz8fqPpe7U1idc pi3a1aPiIbWX3Y8EF5edcj4ydaP2S+WimhNHe16zo0pHjKAAB45dsf40wPwK4RXqvYpK 1X3fSPcVCivb0iTM6yHBpVMcSAktJGtBIJ4ak= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.82.14 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9bbcef731003280503q4993e5b4ud8d874b8e9c376a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:34:02 -0600 Received: by 10.229.130.206 with SMTP id u14mr104624qcs.74.1269797642207; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6201873e1003281034s52636444h113cc8760a007490@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Masoom Shaikh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random FreeBSD panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:34:03 -0000 On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > nopes, this didn't help too, machine freezed again after using for 30 > minutes or so > all it was doing is playing amarok, fetching sources from svn repos, > and using firefox > > lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome > this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it > result in reasonable performance penalty. > They would remove or replace the bad hardware. I've seen more that one DIMM which passed every memory checker I could find in it's most extensive testing mode. Only consistently effective option is to replace with a known good piece of memory. -- Adam Vande More