Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:33:08 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Alain Fauconnet <alain@cscoms.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Numerous hard hangs on TWO different ASUS P4T-E w/P4 1.6G Message-ID: <20020607143308.A1030@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <20020607180239.C5061@cscoms.net>; from alain@cscoms.net on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:02:39PM %2B0700 References: <20020607180239.C5061@cscoms.net>
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Thus spake Alain Fauconnet <alain@cscoms.net>: > I am experiencing numerous hard hangs on a fairly busy FreeBSD 4.5 box > (IMP web mail server with a lot of users). Sometimes 4 times in one > hour. Reset button is the only solution, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no > Ctrl-Alt-Esc (DDB is compiled in the kernel and "usually" works). > > This box has been fairly stable for a couple of months of production > mode, although it did experience a shorter series of similar hangs (2 > or 3) a few of weeks ago. I have switched the disk to a completely > similar box (same m/b, configuration...) and it also hangs, so I have > more or less ruled out a hardware failure (unless the disk is the > culprit?). Don't rule out hardware problems until you've tried a different model motherboard. Some old ASUS boards have a problem where, under intense memory load, the voltage drops below the signalling threshhold and the box locks up as you've described. (ASUS won't readily admit to this or any of the other bugs in their boards, but ask them why they did the third revision to the P2B-F.) That's just an example, but the point is that both of your P4T-Es could have the same bug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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