From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 17 18:29:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB2937B633 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00239; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:29:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3973B316.C4442AAF@urx.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:29:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Chris , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signal 11 on 4-Stable buildworld; bad memory or what? References: <20000717223751.3846.qmail@web3105.mail.yahoo.com> <20000717192441.A44452@kingsqueak.org> <20000717173708.A13211@manatee.mammalia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R Joseph Wright wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:24:41PM -0400, Chris wrote: > > I like the AMD's, have a K6-3/450 here with a really heavy Alpha > > heatsink on it and a 27cfm bearing fan. Even with that fan... it just > > doesn't like make buildworld or building X without the case cover off > > though. Though it's not a small problem... it still performs well for me > > overall. My older K6/2 200 here can build all day no problem...the new > > ones just got really hot. > > > > I actually had to give up on fbsd for my work desktop because the > > cheapie fan on the K6/2 450 I have just wouldn't cut it, even with the > > case off and the thing would just plain reboot on any moderate sized > > builds. I just don't have the time at the office to mess with it and my > > workstation is a management station of sorts as well. > > I had these problems with my K6/2 450 until I finally got out the sandpaper > and lapped both the CPU and the heatsink. The heatsink needed it much worse > than the CPU. I have had only one reboot since I did that while loading the > system heavily with an X build. Even one reboot is not good, but it's much > better than it was. They weren't flat or what. I found I could cook the heat transfer tape using an overclocked Celeron. I replaced the tape with heatsink compound but doing a build of XFree86 3.3.4 had finished cooking the cpu. I remember reading before where you did that and was going to ask you why. > > www.pcpowercooling.com sells heavy duty heatsink/fans for many processors > including the K6/2. If my problems ever return I plan to buy one from them. Another place is http://www.3dfxcool.com/. He has some fans that look like they would lift the case off if you weren't using the cpu as a thrust reverser. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message