Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:41:02 -0400 From: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird crashes Message-ID: <20040817204102.GC33859@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <200408171843.14459.baldur@foo.is> References: <200408171843.14459.baldur@foo.is>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:43:14PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I have a computer running FreeBSD 5.2.1-REL, I've tried 3 different video > cards (two nvidia and one matrox), I've tried two different motherboards > (Aopen AK77-8XN and Aopen AK77-600GN), I've tried using just a single memory > DIMM out of the two, I've tried two different processors (AMD AthlonXP 2500+ > 1.83GHz and AMD Duron 1300MHz). If you've moved the processors, did you redo thermal interface? Even stock AMD Athlon heatsinks w/ thermal pad can be problematic, even at normal room temperatures, I would suggest if your a bit uncertain, clean the pads off the heatsinks and CPU mating surface and try reapplying thermal interface grease such as Arctic Silver 3 or 5. > I also tried moving the swap partition on a different hard drive. > > The problem is this: > Programs crash, namely Xfree86. > Xfree86 always stops on signal 6 (SIGABRT), and it seems to happen mostly when > I've filled the RAM and have started to use quite a bit of swap. I'm mostly > filling the ram with lots of browser windows opening heavy graphics off the > network. Do you get any panics, or just processes die? If no panics or lockups, it might not be a hardware issue. Have you looked into resource limits? > Any debugging ideas? Do you see any messages on the console? You could always take the debugging route explained in the handbook and employ a serial console. > brgds. > Baldur Gislason -- Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541
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