From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 11 15:30:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from aries.fortean.com (aries.fortean.com [209.42.229.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E890D15284 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) Received: from localhost (walter@localhost) by aries.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01266; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:40:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) X-Authentication-Warning: aries.fortean.com: walter owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:40:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce M. Walter" To: Doug Rabson Cc: "Gooderum, Mark" , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Alpha Multia ( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Issue 2 - Random crashes. With 3.1-RELEASE the system will randomly just > > restart without any messages from the kernel or a core dump. It's pretty > > consistently related to lots of disk activity especially with more than one > > process. With the latest 4.x SNAPSHOT things are much more stable and it's > > only done that once. > > I'm not too sure what to suggest. Has anyone else noticed this on 3.1? Yes. On my multia. I shot some messages through this list approximately a month ago. I wound up building my tree on my Miata and sending it over the net to the Multia. The best guess before was dodgy hardware, most likely the memory. I've been toying with buying new RAM, but true parity is a bit pricey right now. (And will continue to be so as things move toward SDRAM) 4.0 decreased the frequency of these reboots, but did not eliminate them as I had first thought. Due to time constraints I've not been able to play with the system recently. If any more info becomes available I'd love to hear it. - Bruce ______________________ Bruce M. Walter, Principal NIXdesign Group Inc. 426 S. Dawson Street Raleigh NC 27601 USA 919.829.4901 Tel (ext 11) 919.829.4993 Fax http://www.nixdesign.com Visual communications | concept + code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message