Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:18:40 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panics, lots of them Message-ID: <3E834080.3010902@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030327125138.B60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> References: <20030327125138.B60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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jaime@snowmoon.com wrote: > I have a box that has been having problems for months. > Originally, there were problems that were corrected by replacing the > mother board. What kind of problems did you have? And what hardware? It's quite possible to damage the CPU or even the power supply if the motherboard fails badly enough. > Since then, and I'm not sure when this began, there have > been kernel panics after several days of uptime. They can be after one > day or three weeks, but they keep happening. Probably not a problem with cooling, then. Still sounds like flaky hardware, though, to me... > So far, I've replaced an IDE cable and a boot time error > disappeared, replaced RAM with no benefits, and cvsup'ed/make-world'ed > with no benefits. > > I'm not sure what is causing the problems. Any suggestions of > what I should do next? I still have 14 kernel panic dumps if anyone can > think of tests that I should be running. Most of the panics appear to be > page faults, but two of them were lockmgr issues. I'm considering > replacing the mother board and/or the whole computer. Unfortunately, this > is a fairly major server at my school (staff email, assorted web-based > apps, web site, intranet, etc.) so I am trying to keep outage frequency > and duration to a minimum. There is memtest and cpuburn in the ports; try running those and see whether you can get the system to crash. -Chuck
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