From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 10:11:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C6116A402 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from The-M@d-Scientist.de) Received: from srv23.fsb.echelon.bnd.org (mail.pyro.de [83.137.99.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77C713C469 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from The-M@d-Scientist.de) Received: from i59f7fb42.versanet.de ([89.247.251.66] helo=FLASH) by srv23.fsb.echelon.bnd.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HdkO1-000K9K-R7 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:54:09 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:54:18 +0200 From: Solon Luigi Lutz X-Mailer: SecureBat! Lite (v2.12.4) Personal Organization: Scientists Unlimited Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <558853907.20070417115418@d-Scientist.de> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <46243E4D.4060602@hier7.com> References: <1387491461.20070411043619@pyro.de> <1133543067.20070416232850@pyro.de> <46243E4D.4060602@hier7.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re[2]: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Solon Luigi Lutz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:11:18 -0000 CS> Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: >> after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it >> finaly seems to be a hardware problem... >> The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the >> heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, >> the chip seems to get too hot. I manufactured a massive one from >> a IGBT heat-sink and since 20 hours the machine is doing ftp-transfers >> without any reboots - I keep my fingers crossed... CS> I have had similar reboot issues with this board, especially when CS> sustaining high levels of i/o traffic. Active cooling for chipset seems CS> to help a lot. CS> - Chris Slothouber Cooling seems to be the point - 36 hours without reboots. Previously you burn your fingers on the heat-sink, now it has surface temperature of 28C. As I havn't put any effort in that field; can you recommend a way of monitoring the temperature? Healthd? Kernel option? Solon