Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:17:52 +0000 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic freeze and reset Message-ID: <20070904021752.0066b70a.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <20070903174654.1afa4354.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <60608.18289.qm@web30810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070903225247.bd5622ff.ghirai@ghirai.com> <20070903163141.2f4e1f9e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070903234458.cb13c501.ghirai@ghirai.com> <20070903174654.1afa4354.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:46:54 -0400 Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:31:41 -0400 > > Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > > > > > Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > My desktop running 6.2-STABLE is freezing then resetting shortly after. > > > > This behaviour happens every couple hours, for no apparent reason. > > > > > > > > I checked messages, etc, there's nothing there. > > > > > > > > This is getting annoying... :/ > > > > > > > > I'd appreciate any hints/where to look/what to look for. > > > > > > My first guess would be hardware problems. Have you run memtest? > > > Checked for cooling problems? cpuburn to test for a flaky CPU? > > > > > > > Haven't ran any hw monitors/test, but i spend time periodically in windows, > > about 2-3 days each time, and it didn't crash reset. > > > > That's why i think there are no hw issues. > > > > In FreeBSD the freeze+resets occur and seemingly random intervals, but > > not longer than 30 hours. Mostly within 6 hours. > > That seems to suggest that it isn't hardware, but doesn't completely > eliminate the possibility. > > Often, vendors write drivers to work around known deficiencies in their > hardware. Since FreeBSD's drivers are written to the specs, they may > expose these deficiencies while the vendor's drivers intentionally avoid > them. > > Additionally, FreeBSD seems to work hardware in different ways than > Windows, thus tickling corner cases with hardware that's just barely > failing. Run some hardware tests to be sure. > > Also, the driver issue that was raised is a good point. I've seen a > number of buggy NICs where the vendor's driver worked around the > bugginess so it _looked_ like FreeBSD was at fault. > > Make sure all your hardware is known to work on FreeBSD. > All right, i'll do some tests with the NIC, change it, etc. I'll post back results. Thanks. -- Regards, Ghirai.
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