From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 9 16:54:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355351065673 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:54:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2C98FC13 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:54:14 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from [17.153.27.94] by asmtp020.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LO2004VXSA0YU70@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:54:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-07-09_06:2011-07-08, 2011-07-09, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1107090132 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4E18805F.2000401@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:54:00 -0700 Message-id: <64F2085C-AC27-4498-8E33-48E7FE92CC9F@mac.com> References: <20110709053404.B1FC910656AE@hub.freebsd.org> <4E18332F.1040805@gmail.com> <0C3600E5-1324-4852-894A-D29F3445660C@mac.com> <4E18805F.2000401@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:54:15 -0000 On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight under WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? > BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : > > apm_enable="NO" > apmd_enable="NO" ACPI replaced APM around 2000. (I'm assuming you don't have a 11-year-old quad-core Phenom system, since AMD didn't make such processors until 2007 or 2008.) Regards, -- -Chuck