Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:48:38 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: NWA <allen@cis.ohio-state.edu>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sudden FreeBSD Death Syndrome, SFDS Message-ID: <20011230214837.A96678@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011230202623.A8696@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:26:23PM %2B0000 References: <20011230201001.B7332@tao.org.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0112301511350.19844-100000@epsilon.cis.ohio-state.edu> <20011230202623.A8696@tao.org.uk>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:26:23PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:20:30PM -0500, NWA wrote: > > Joe- > > > > Yes, I am completely open to all possibilities of its cause, and believe > > me, SFDS was simply for dramatic effect. > > > > I can say that this has occurred on two different hard drives of seperate > > manufacture on this machine. Also, the same has not occurred on this > > machine when it ran other OS's including Win 98, Win 2000, and several Linux > > distributions. Beyond those two observations I have little else to go on. > > > > What components of the hardware might you suggest as the cause? > > Motherboard or memory. It has been noted before that FreeBSD has been > known to drive the hardware a little harder that some other operating > systems. The best bet is to compile a kernel with debug options I would say that when we aim on hardware failure it's pretty useless to mess around with debugging a kernel. A good test for me some time ago was when a certain hardware I chose for FreeBSD survived a buildworld, then I could consider it reliable. My suspicion is bad memory in this case. > switched on and then try and catch a kernel panic when the machine > reboots. This should give an indication of what is going wrong. Take a > look in the FreeBSD handbook for details of how to do this. > > Joe -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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