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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:22:35 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        BSD <bsd@shell-server.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE!
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000921001853.00b93270@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009201959480.20731-100000@marvin.shell-ser ver.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009201050370.12282-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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At 08:11 PM 9/20/00 -0500, BSD wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Chris Dillon wrote:
> > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem.
> > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard
> > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory
> > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS.  If you STILL have
> > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on
> > something else.  The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is
> > when overclocking the processor.  You aren't overclocking those
> > processors are you?
>
>         Are you saying all 3 sticks are bad at 133MHz (KA7) and one
>or more is bad at 66MHz (BP6)?  The likelihood of that is extremely small.
>Also, a 512MB stick of RAM would cost me $1,600CAD.  Sigh.  That's not
>going to happen anytime soon.  Furthermore, I stress tested each stick of
>RAM, with make -j64 buildworld.  Nothing failed there.  The panics
>happenned when the system was just doing its normal tasks.  I'll try to
>post more detailed reports (including crash dumps).

What Chris suggested is even more important if you are populating all 
memory slots.  There is a limit to how many chips total can be driven.  Try 
removing one from any system that is fully loaded.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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