From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 10:40:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF3C16A4CF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:40:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web21113.mail.yahoo.com (web21113.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDE1D43D49 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from materribile@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040629103942.66293.qmail@web21113.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.228.74.10] by web21113.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:39:42 PDT Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:39:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Terribile To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040629054047.E116E16A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: lmmon -- re: Spontaneous Restarts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:40:33 -0000 Thanks to those who've helped so far. I thought we were onto something, but ... > I just ran lmmon (lmmon -i) and got outrageously high readings: 185C, > varying. Yet the heat sink isn't even warm. Assuming that lmmon can > be trusted, have to check (read re-do) the thermal compound. ... Before fooling around with the processor chip, I did the fastest shutdown I could (short of the reset button) and looked at the temperature known to the configuration BIOS. It was the same placid 39C +/- 1C. This leaves me fairly sure that lmmon is wrong; if it had been over 100C less than fifteen seconds before, the temperature would still have been decaying. OTOH, lmmon's value did float/bobble like a real reading. Is there another way to examine the CPU temperature on a P4 while FreeBSD is running? And, of course, there's still the original problem. In the UNIX v5 documentation for a system panic, one entry read ``Definitely hardware or software error.'' The next read ``Like the previous, but produced elsewhere.'' My restart must be the one Produced Elsewhere. Mark Terribile __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail