Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:31:02 -0400 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: "'Gustafson, Tim'" <tjg@meitech.com>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.9 / Supermicro 7043P-8R / Crashes After 2-5 Minutes Of Uptime Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D88E8@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Gustafson, Tim [mailto:tjg@meitech.com] > Sent: April 7, 2004 11:46 AM > To: 'Don Bowman' > Cc: 'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org' > Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.9 / Supermicro 7043P-8R / Crashes After 2-5 > Minutes Of Uptime > > > > Definitely i would suggest running memtest86 on it for a bit [at > > least 24 hours], but with the ECC, memory errors would have to > > be gross to be noticeable. > > Don, > > Thanks for your response, and thanks to Doug White for his > response too. > > I got no other information on a serial console or on the > regular VGA console > other than syncing disks and the usual shutdown messages. > > I removed all memory and tried new memory in both 2GB and 4GB > amounts. I > have removed both processors in turn. Neither of these helped at all. > > I downloaded a copy of 5.2.1 and installed it onto the > machine and it seems > to be operating smoothly, for the moment. > > Once I was able to keep the machine running under 5.2.1 for > more than 5 > minutes, I downloaded and installed memtest and ran it. It > is behaving a > little oddly. It will run if I specify 4M of memory, or 128M > of memory, but > gets an immediate page fault if I specify 512M, 1G, 2G or 4G > of memory. > Coincidently, it gets NO errors when run under 4M or 128M. i would use the 'memtest86', which runs as its own operating system. http://www.memtest86.com/ Let me know if you want a version which understands the ECC on this board and will load from FreeBSD loader. I sent my patches to the author but didn't see them incorporated. --don
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