Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:22:35 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: BSD <bsd@shell-server.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000921001853.00b93270@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009201959480.20731-100000@marvin.shell-ser ver.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009201050370.12282-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Dropping -bugs CC At 08:11 PM 9/20/00 -0500, BSD wrote: >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Chris Dillon wrote: > > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem. > > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard > > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory > > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS. If you STILL have > > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on > > something else. The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is > > when overclocking the processor. You aren't overclocking those > > processors are you? > > Are you saying all 3 sticks are bad at 133MHz (KA7) and one >or more is bad at 66MHz (BP6)? The likelihood of that is extremely small. >Also, a 512MB stick of RAM would cost me $1,600CAD. Sigh. That's not >going to happen anytime soon. Furthermore, I stress tested each stick of >RAM, with make -j64 buildworld. Nothing failed there. The panics >happenned when the system was just doing its normal tasks. I'll try to >post more detailed reports (including crash dumps). What Chris suggested is even more important if you are populating all memory slots. There is a limit to how many chips total can be driven. Try removing one from any system that is fully loaded. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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