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From: "Jonathan A. McEllroy" <mcellroy@jxm203.rh.psu.edu>
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To: brandon@glacier.cold.org, shovey@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE halts for no apparent reason URGENT!!
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> > Everytime Ive had a lockup problem under freebsd it was ram related.  Are
> > all your simms from the same manufacturer? are they heavily chipped ones?
> > Have you tried turning off the external cache?  Have you trierd swapping
> > ram with another machine?

I have taken out the 4meg 70ns SIMM and just left in the 32meg 60ns SIMM. 
We'll see if it still locks up. The chips were most likely from different
companies.

> Or heat related--make sure your server is in a well ventilated area and
> the fans are working and not clogged.
>
> -Brandon Gillespie


Both the chip and the caseing have unclogged fans and are well ventilated, also
the chip has a heat-sink.

Jon