From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 23 17:14:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603DC37B628; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA38249; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200008240013.RAA38249@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: WTF In-Reply-To: from Chris Byrnes at "Aug 23, 2000 07:02:20 pm" To: chris@jeah.net (Chris Byrnes) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: papalia@udel.edu (John), simon@optinet.com (Simon), questions@FreeBSD.ORG (questions@FreeBSD.ORG), stable@FreeBSD.ORG (stable@FreeBSD.ORG) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Nothing in the log. > > I changed the CPU from an AMD K6 300 to an AMD K6-2 500.. Are there any > known issues with that processor type/speed? K6-2 500's are very picky about cooling and power supply capacity. Did you use thermal grease and do you have an oversize heatsink with at least a 50 or 60mm fan on it? Have you tripple checked the CPU voltage setting? Did you happen to change from running a 66Mhz to 100MHz FSB when you went from the 300 to the 500? > ------------------------------------------------- > Chris Byrnes, Owner NSI NIC HANDLE CB5820 > Jeah Communications http://www.jeah.net > ------------------------------------------------- > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John wrote: > > > Anything showing up in your message log? (/var/log/messages). That could > > be helpful too. For right now though, you're really not giving very much > > info, other than info that pretty much boils down to that you "changed > > everything and now nothing works". > > > > --john > > > > >SWAP usage has been high lately. It happened RIGHT after I upgraded the > > >system to a new CPU, board, and RAM, and to 3.50STABLE. I > > >thought maybe there was a OS issue with my SUP or something (I > > >was hoping). That's when it started > > >happening. God, I dont have TIME to weed thru trying new boards and new > > >CPUs. > > > > > >I wish there was a quick fix. > > > > > > > it can be anything! and i mean anything! bad RAM, bad harddrive, bad > > > CPU, etc... and i know EXACTLY how it feels > > > > when shit like this happens. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to > > > determine the cause. Are you using %100 certified > > > > RAM for your motherboard? just because it's new doesn't mean jack. I > > > had servers go wild with brand new out of the box > > > > RAM and harddrives. You said it only started recently, try to remember > > > after what? some change you made? more load? > > > > do you have logs enabled? anything in there? do you monitor this > > > machine? what's the load average like? swap usage, > > > > etc... what is it doing most of the time? > > > > > > > > -Simon > > > > > > > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:33:21 -0500 (CDT), Chris Byrnes wrote: > > > > > > > > >I'm running 3.5-STABLE. > > > > > > > > > >Recently, my server has started rebooting, at random times, usually > > > > >actually quite religiously about every 2 days. > > > > > > > > > >I thought it might be a RAM problem. Replaced with brand new RAM. > > > > >Same problem. > > > > > > > > > >Any ideas, at all? Pllllllllllllease. > > > > > > > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message