From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 23 17:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from front001.cluster1.charter.net (24-216-159-200.hsacorp.net [24.216.159.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDBB37B43E; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.217.6.45] (HELO dave.uhring.com) by front001.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4) with ESMTP id 16600155; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:46:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:46:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Uhring X-Sender: duhring@dave.uhring.com To: Chris Byrnes Cc: John , Simon , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: WTF In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG K6 300 has 66 MHz FSB, K6-2/500 has 100 MHz FSB. Are you using PC-100 SDRAM? If not, does your MB support using a 100 MHz FSB CPU with 66 MHz RAM? Did you make sure that your MB configuration settings match your hardware? Dave On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: > Nothing in the log. > > I changed the CPU from an AMD K6 300 to an AMD K6-2 500.. Are there any > known issues with that processor type/speed? > > ------------------------------------------------- > Chris Byrnes, Owner NSI NIC HANDLE CB5820 > Jeah Communications http://www.jeah.net > ------------------------------------------------- > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John wrote: > > > Anything showing up in your message log? (/var/log/messages). That could > > be helpful too. For right now though, you're really not giving very much > > info, other than info that pretty much boils down to that you "changed > > everything and now nothing works". > > > > --john > > > > >SWAP usage has been high lately. It happened RIGHT after I upgraded the > > >system to a new CPU, board, and RAM, and to 3.50STABLE. I > > >thought maybe there was a OS issue with my SUP or something (I > > >was hoping). That's when it started > > >happening. God, I dont have TIME to weed thru trying new boards and new > > >CPUs. > > > > > >I wish there was a quick fix. > > > > > > > it can be anything! and i mean anything! bad RAM, bad harddrive, bad > > > CPU, etc... and i know EXACTLY how it feels > > > > when shit like this happens. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to > > > determine the cause. Are you using %100 certified > > > > RAM for your motherboard? just because it's new doesn't mean jack. I > > > had servers go wild with brand new out of the box > > > > RAM and harddrives. You said it only started recently, try to remember > > > after what? some change you made? more load? > > > > do you have logs enabled? anything in there? do you monitor this > > > machine? what's the load average like? swap usage, > > > > etc... what is it doing most of the time? > > > > > > > > -Simon > > > > > > > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:33:21 -0500 (CDT), Chris Byrnes wrote: > > > > > > > > >I'm running 3.5-STABLE. > > > > > > > > > >Recently, my server has started rebooting, at random times, usually > > > > >actually quite religiously about every 2 days. > > > > > > > > > >I thought it might be a RAM problem. Replaced with brand new RAM. > > > > >Same problem. > > > > > > > > > >Any ideas, at all? Pllllllllllllease. > > > > > > > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message