From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 20:36:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4999F16A403 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hier7.com) Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E239613C457 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hier7.com) Received: (qmail 28688 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2007 20:36:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.27.1.5?) (cms.kw@rogers.com@74.109.56.227 with plain) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2007 20:36:51 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Wx3YaCMVM1klc3gAzWbw5XFoFpaZ5p4hUYJl19XLifYvfzXLS4rv83zaKlleBRq4bw-- Message-ID: <46252FE6.9050203@hier7.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:36:54 -0400 From: Chris Slothouber Organization: hier7 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <1387491461.20070411043619@pyro.de> <1133543067.20070416232850@pyro.de> <46243E4D.4060602@hier7.com> <558853907.20070417115418@d-Scientist.de> In-Reply-To: <558853907.20070417115418@d-Scientist.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen... 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: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:36:52 -0000 Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: > CS> Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: >>> after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it >>> finaly seems to be a hardware problem... >>> The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the >>> heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, >>> the chip seems to get too hot. I manufactured a massive one from >>> a IGBT heat-sink and since 20 hours the machine is doing ftp-transfers >>> without any reboots - I keep my fingers crossed... > > CS> I have had similar reboot issues with this board, especially when > CS> sustaining high levels of i/o traffic. Active cooling for chipset seems > CS> to help a lot. > > CS> - Chris Slothouber > > Cooling seems to be the point - 36 hours without reboots. Previously > you burn your fingers on the heat-sink, now it has surface temperature > of 28C. > As I havn't put any effort in that field; can you recommend a way of > monitoring the temperature? Healthd? Kernel option? As far as I can tell, there are only two temperature sensors accessible via the BIOS, CPU and MB. I'm not sure of the location of the MB sensor is located but it doesn't seem to correspond directly to the chipset health. I've used mbmon + cacti to keep an RRD history of the temperature and fan speeds. - Chris Slothouber