Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:00:24 -0500 From: "Jamil Taylor" <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Nick Sayer" <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SMP on a Dell Precision 220? Message-ID: <IPEKLLPIPAHHGADPCGLGAEJNCAAA.jamil_taylor@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <20010110221053.A33238@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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For what it's worth, I'm running 4.2 Stable on an SMP Precision 420. My Dell does not include CPU fans, and I have not run into problems. Did you try Dell's diagnostic utility from the bootable CD-ROM at all? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Malone Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:11 PM To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP on a Dell Precision 220? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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