Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:10:53 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP on a Dell Precision 220? Message-ID: <20010110221053.A33238@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <200101101938.f0AJcPL58553@medusa.kfu.com>; from nsayer@quack.kfu.com on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:38:25AM -0800 References: <200101101938.f0AJcPL58553@medusa.kfu.com>
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:38:25AM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote: > The symptom is that if I turn on the 2nd cpu in the BIOS, I can't get through > a buildworld without a symptom indicative of memory corruption (cc1 SEGVs > that happen in different spots, etc). We had some problems like this and it turned out to be cruddy CPU fans. The CPUs run hotter in SMP mode, I think because it doesn't use the halt instruction then. In the end we bolted the fans on more tightly and the problem stopped. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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