From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 14: 5:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9CF37B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8KL83o76527; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:08:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:08:03 +0200 (CEST) From: "O. Hartmann" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats is this? FBSD 4.1 isn't stable! In-Reply-To: <20000920135345.M9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Well, sorry, but this is not that kind of doing science by laying hands onto something and say: well - its this kind of symptome! We develop here equipment for airborne measurement facilities for meteorological science and the way we stress things makes me sure, over the time, that a system, which has been stressed much more under much more bad conditions do not fail in a phase of been not stressed that hard. Maybe you're right and I caught some kind of "hardware failure", but surely not that kind of failure that we expect due to "overheating" the CPUs. The machine here in front of me is much better air conditioned thatn other systems I stressed. Kind regards, O. Hartmann :>* O. Hartmann [000920 13:47] wrote: :>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :>> Dear A. Perlstein. :>> Well ... my sendmail is configured to warp lines at 70 characters, I do not :>> know why it is not working. :>> :>> The problem I described is simply not that what I expect due to a hardware :>> malfunction. I already checked all connectors, memory - nothing! There is :>> nothing that seems to be different from a few days ago. Overheating is not :>> on the list of possibilities - due to changing weather conditions its :>> really "cold" herein (about 20 degrees Celsius). But in the summertime I never :>> have had this error - and at this time, the server is not under heavy load. :>> It is strange ... really strange ... :>> :>> Well, on the other hand: it is not ECC RAM, so ... :> :>Here's what you're saying: :> :> I have a relatively quiencent (sp?) system, basically it's not stressed. :> :> After doing cvsup, makeworld and another cvsup in a pretty short :> amount of time, ie. making the CPUs spin pretty hard for a long :> time, I get a classical memory error/heating problem symptom. :> :>Lastly where is your crashdump so someone can actually do something :>about this? :> :>http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html :> :>thanks, :>-Alfred :> Gruss O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz Netzwerk- und Systembetreuung To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message