Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:51:52 -0700 From: "Aaron" <click46@webpimps.net> To: "Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?=" <watchman@ludd.luth.se> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye bye dear SMP-system Message-ID: <20010820145413.B11DD37B415@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3B81097B.6090201@ludd.luth.se>
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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
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