Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:29:57 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bye bye dear SMP-system Message-ID: <20010820112957.A4506@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20010820145413.B11DD37B415@hub.freebsd.org>; from click46@webpimps.net on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:51:52AM -0700 References: <3B81097B.6090201@ludd.luth.se> <20010820145413.B11DD37B415@hub.freebsd.org>
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I know it sounds stupid, but have you checked the fan on the 2nd cpu? Win98 is not smp. Barney Wolff On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:51:52AM -0700, Aaron wrote: > Joachim Strömbergson, > > I too own an Abit BP6, only with two 433 celerons. I have had on three > random occasions 4.3-RELEASE spontaneously reboot. Only once was I > present when the system rebooted itself and the error message was quite > perplexing. This machine does not run X and, oddly enough, had nothing > but standard daemons running at the time. > I still have yet to find the *exact* cause but a BIOS flash to the > latest non-beta version and removing an older 64Mb Pc100 Siemens quickly > ridded my machine of any SMP unstability (in both Win2K and FreeBSD). > Being a long time BP6 user and overclocker, I've seen many stories > quite similar to yours. How long have you had the board? Has any trouble > like this happend before in any operating system? Any changes hardware > wise that might perhaps raise system temp? Lastly, what revision is your > BP6? > > Regards, > - aaron > > --------------------------------------------- > click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 > webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net > moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joachim Strömbergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se> > To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:58:35 +0200 > Subject: Bye bye dear SMP-system > > > Aloha! > > > > Ok, I belive I'm experiencing a HW failure but would just like to check > > with you guys. > > > > I have been a very happy owner of a FreeBSD SMP system. The machine > > runs > > on dual Celeron 533 CPUs on the ABIT BP6 MB. It has been a very stable > > and nice system even though it might not have the straight line, single > > process speed. > > > > Lately however I have experienced hard lockups that forces me to hit > > reset. I've survived so far (thanks to Soft updates I pressume). One of > > the big SW changes have been the move to XFree86 4.1.0. Also, I have > > probably let kernel and system come out of sync [1]. > > > > Checking this I therefore dropped out of X and made a buildworld, > > single > > user installworld and mergemaster. Suddenly I got a lock in while > > merging. Since /etc hadn't been updates no major harm was done. > > > > I noticed however that Win98 worked smoothly and semed to be more > > stable > > that the SMP-system. (No, I'm not trolling ;-). This sounds seriously > > wrong. This got me thinking in terms of SMP vs UP. > > > > I therefore compiled a new kernel with the only difference compared to > > the SMP kernel was that SMP was turned off. I have now been running on > > this kernel for 8 hours in X with mozilla (another suspect since I > > recently started using it). So far everything seems fine. > > > > So, a few questions: > > (1) Is late 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-RC unstable in SMP mode? I suspect not, > > > > (2) How to go about catching the lock? Console doesn't show anything, > > the machines simply freezes over, > > > > (3) Any BP6-user with similar experience that have any ideas? > > > > I'm not running overclocked or anything like that. > > > > I've included the latest dmesg. (It's the UP dmesg). > > > > Any help and pointers would be very helpful. > > > > > > [1] I guess I'm not the only one tracks stable on a weekly basis, and > > then once in a while realises that a new driver or thingy needs to be > > changed in the kernel and therefore simply rebuilds and installs a new > > kernel while not building && installing world everytime. Yes I hang my > > head in shame. > > > > -- > > Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers! > > > > Joachim Strömbergson > > ======================================================================= > > ===== > > Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute* animals. > > snail: phone: mail & web: > > Sävenäsgatan 5A +46 31 - 27 98 47 watchman@ludd.luth.se > > 416 72 Göteborg +46 733 75 97 02 > > www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman > > ======================================================================= > > ===== > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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