From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 14: 8: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9FD37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01EE43F6B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0251.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.251] helo=mindspring.com) by heron with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18YZDw-0006nO-00; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3E2489EB.1B739318@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:06:35 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Nate Lawson , wade , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 Freezes under high load with SMP. References: <3.0.32.20030114102748.020e5a30@mail.wavefire.com> <20030114201523.A28726@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4bddd28bc8fca7ff0384f63abe02c920f666fa475841a1c7a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, wade wrote: > > > Although GENERIC functions perfectly, when I enable SMP in GENERIC, the box > > > freezes during big build jobs ( i.e. buildworld. ). This box functioned > > > well in SMP mode und 4.7-STABLE. The big problem is that freezing does not > > > leave core files or any other debugging information. > > > > > > Hardware: > > > ASUS CUV4X-D > > > 2 X PIII 600 MHz Coppermine. > > > 512 MB 133MHz RAM. > > Interesting, as I have been trying the last 3 days to reproduce freezes > that people reported on 5.0 on (specifically) the ASUS BP6 mainboard. > > I ran continuous make -j16 buildworlds to see if I could break it, but > no luck (or very good luck, depends on your perspective ;-) Compare CPU steppings, BIOS revisions, advanced BIOS setups, amount of L2 cache, and amount of Physical RAM, as well as any special hardware. My perspective on this is that, from the brevity of the report, this could be anything causing, up to and including that it's a bad keyboard, and the keyboard driver is hanging, but the OS is fine. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message