From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 21:15:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA19516A41F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@jetnet.co.uk) Received: from kosh.jetnet.co.uk (kosh.jetnet.co.uk [80.87.128.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EFF43D72 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:14:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@jetnet.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kosh.jetnet.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5660D2B0E4; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:14:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kosh.jetnet.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.jetnet.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 93162-01; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:14:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.0.40] (82-69-108-39.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.108.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kosh.jetnet.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0410C20A6F; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:14:42 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4398A23E.20405@jetnet.co.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:14:38 +0000 From: david reid User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <439875CF.5020006@jetnet.co.uk> <20051208180732.GA23742@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051208180732.GA23742@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jetnet.co.uk Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get more info X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:15:13 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:05:03PM +0000, David Reid wrote: > >>I'm running -STABLE and at present I'm being lucky to get more than 6 >>hours uptime! The problem (and reason for this email) is to ask if there >>is anything I can do to try and get more info on th crashes to help >>debug and correct them. When the system goes it just reboots, no panic >>or information written to any logs. It's been doing it for a while but >>the last few days have seen it happening more often. >> >>I'm running a GENERIC kernel with WITNESS enabled. I'm more than willing >>to try and help find/fix the problem, but the lack of information is >>stopping me from doing much! > > > While there are other possibilities, this sounds a lot like a hardware > problem. Have you tried running memtest86 on the machine memtest86 reports no errors in repeated running - though I am running it again at the moment, but in 3 hours of tests this time it hasn't shown any errors :-( david