Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:48:19 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Subject: Re: Best way to build a "new" AMD64 current Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706141348190.10404@hymn01.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070614130551.E60816@10.0.0.1>
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Walter Vaughan wrote: > >> I have a dual quad core intel box that I want to test current on. It's been >> running current about 4 weeks, and the last week has been nothing short of a >> lot of random reboots under load. But when it is running it's spectacular. >> >> (Yes I've been reading this list and UPDATING) >> >> What is the best policy to build a new current? I'll erase and start anew. >> >> I'm not much help to Jeff Roberson right now, if all the feedback is that >> regardless of the scheduler I use, it reboots under load. Sadly, I'd blame >> java in this instance, but we've gotten it to reboot more often just running >> the postgres command line tool psql with large dataset imports. > > Have you checked your BIOS event log for ram parity errors, etc? Is this the > first OS you've installed on the machine? > > You also should enable the KDB, DDB, and INVARIANTS options in your kernel to > try to catch the problem if it is a software bug. > > Thanks, > Jeff > >> >> Is this the best way? >> >> 1)Using a FreeBSD AMD64 6.2 boot only CD, and doing a minumal install. >> 2)Then installing pkg_add -r cvsup and getting the /usr/src w/ current >> 3)Then do a buildworld/kernel * install dance >> 4)Then install ports collection >> 5)Then install compat6x, postgresql, svn, javawrapper, xorglibraries >> 6)pkg_add diablo-AMD64-java-for-6.1 >> 7)svn the ERP and start testing >> >> Thanks >> -- >> Walter -What's the motherboard maker? -What's the chipset maker (nVidia, Intel)? -Have you tried out an alternate OS in testing the system? -Garrett
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