From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 15:22:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2EC16A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:22:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harrisb@rcisd.org) Received: from mail.rcisd.org (mail.rcisd.org [207.235.198.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997A043D55 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:22:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harrisb@rcisd.org) Received: from [207.235.198.14] (helo=notes1.rcisd.org) by mail.rcisd.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1E5mDN-000DVJ-8y; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:21:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050818111551.GP77387@cicely12.cicely.de> To: ticso@cicely.de MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.4 March 27, 2005 Message-ID: From: harrisb@rcisd.org Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:42 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on notes1/rcisd(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 08/18/2005 10:24:43 AM, Serialize complete at 08/18/2005 10:24:43 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine check on 4100 5.4-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:22:03 -0000 Here's the panic info: -------------------------------------------- Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a unexpected machine check: mces = 0x1 vector = 0x670 param = 0xfffffc0000004e10 pc = 0xfffffc000072faa8 ra = 0xfffffc000072bba4 curproc = 0xfffffc002e7cc000 pid = 693, comm = perl5.8.6 panic: machine check cpuid = 1 boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 1m50s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. ------------------------------------------ The perl script running is my mrtg scripts that start from rc.d. Bill Harris Director of Technology Royse City ISD (972)-635-5050 Bernd Walter 08/18/05 06:15 AM Please respond to ticso@cicely.de To harrisb@rcisd.org cc freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject Re: machine check on 4100 5.4-RELEASE On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:53:28PM -0500, harrisb@rcisd.org wrote: > All of a sudden, I'm getting regular crashes with machine check's. > > I've pulled one of the 533 CPU's, which didn't help, and now am > wondering if it's possible that my instance of Mysql with all it's > unaligned errors > could possibly cause it crash? I've stopped the mysql daemon for a > while just to see if it stabilizes. Anyone have any ideas? > > It will crash after it's been up for days, and then immediately after > reboot. Details about the machine checks would be interesting. Unaligned errors in userland are corrected or the appplication is terminated, depending on configuration. Only unaligned faults inside the kernel are fatal. > I keep thinking hardware, but all the srm test fine. Hard- and software is possible, but without further details this is hard to say. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de