From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 20:41:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D337B16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:41:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afields.ca (afields.ca [216.194.67.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D843D3F for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:41:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (localhost.afields.ca [127.0.0.1]) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7HKf2nS039095; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:41:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: (from afields@localhost) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7HKf2Q5039094; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:41:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:41:02 -0400 From: Allan Fields To: Baldur Gislason Message-ID: <20040817204102.GC33859@afields.ca> References: <200408171843.14459.baldur@foo.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408171843.14459.baldur@foo.is> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:41:06 -0000 On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:43:14PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I have a computer running FreeBSD 5.2.1-REL, I've tried 3 different video > cards (two nvidia and one matrox), I've tried two different motherboards > (Aopen AK77-8XN and Aopen AK77-600GN), I've tried using just a single memory > DIMM out of the two, I've tried two different processors (AMD AthlonXP 2500+ > 1.83GHz and AMD Duron 1300MHz). If you've moved the processors, did you redo thermal interface? Even stock AMD Athlon heatsinks w/ thermal pad can be problematic, even at normal room temperatures, I would suggest if your a bit uncertain, clean the pads off the heatsinks and CPU mating surface and try reapplying thermal interface grease such as Arctic Silver 3 or 5. > I also tried moving the swap partition on a different hard drive. > > The problem is this: > Programs crash, namely Xfree86. > Xfree86 always stops on signal 6 (SIGABRT), and it seems to happen mostly when > I've filled the RAM and have started to use quite a bit of swap. I'm mostly > filling the ram with lots of browser windows opening heavy graphics off the > network. Do you get any panics, or just processes die? If no panics or lockups, it might not be a hardware issue. Have you looked into resource limits? > Any debugging ideas? Do you see any messages on the console? You could always take the debugging route explained in the handbook and employ a serial console. > brgds. > Baldur Gislason -- Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541