Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:25:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't panic Message-ID: <20000628212522.B1596@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006281136040.1652-100000@malkavian.org>; from rbw@myplace.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:17:45PM -0700 References: <14682.14754.992194.72377@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006281136040.1652-100000@malkavian.org>
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:17:45PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > # What were you doing at the time of the crash? Is the machine > # properly cooled? > > at the time of the crash i had just started to compile netcat from the > ports collection. i compiled it successfully after the panic (and after > doing a "make distclean"). all the other stuff running was the same stuff > i have running normally (apache, ntpd, several irc clients, several > screen sessions, pine, sendmail). (btw, X wasn't running.) > > i guess "properly cooled" is kind of relative. it is sitting on my desk > in my bedroom in my apartment. the place is kept at ~80F. the box itself > runs without the top of the case on, so it is well-ventilated. i do know > that the CPU's heatsink will actually burn me if i touch it for more than > about half a second, but i don't think that is uncommon... esp. for older > alphas. The EV4-classic has a tendency to fry your fingers, correct. But try putting a fan in to cool it. I've seen *extremely* weird behaviour with overheating EV4 chips. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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