From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 11:16:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C041065672; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9478FC1A; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 951ED1CC092; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:16:11 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Aggelidis Nikos Message-ID: <20080713111611.GA83443@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <30fc78250807122309r21ea625dn58c93ac7d1f3c345@mail.gmail.com> <20080713025108.3839d97e@bhuda.mired.org> <30fc78250807130104p3d1447behc40cf71c4b817d4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30fc78250807130104p3d1447behc40cf71c4b817d4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird restarts when compiling X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:16:11 -0000 On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:04:31AM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: > * CPU overheating > -> Is there anyway to check for cpu temperatures within freebsd? > -> I 've used the pc for like 8 hours in a really hot day but it > didn't restart...if this can be considered as an indication. Not easily. If coretemp(4) is loaded, you should have some sysctls named dev.cpu.X.temperature which contain the temperature of the core in Celcius. Otherwise, you can try utilities like mbmon and healthd, but those were written for old (circa 90s) hardware. Also, are you running powerd(8) on this machine? > *Memory > -> i used memtest ,from an ubuntu live cd, to check the memory and > everything works fine according to it. That's a good start; your memory is probably not the issue then. > *PSU > I have a 400Watt PSU... maybe this is inadequate. I will try to swap > it for something stronger to see how it goes. Wattage is not the only thing that matters with a PSU. Voltages are significantly more important, if you ask me. I'd make a list of what your voltages are (go into the BIOS and see) and provide them here. There may be one which is significantly off, indicating a bad PSU. > In general where are there any stress tests i can do, to test the PSU > and some major subsystems of the computer? Windows offers many free utilities that do this; I'm not sure about FreeBSD. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |