Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0200, Crist?v?o Dalla Costa wrote: > Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the > BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a > core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half > th

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition with at le

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:15 PM 08/12/2004, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: I've disabled SMP with the kern.smp.disabled=1 sysctl and I'll see what happens next. Strangely though the kernel seems to think the system has only one cpu despite it being hyperthreaded: You want to turn HT off in the BIOS. The scheduler wil

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:21:24PM -0200, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. This sounds like hardware, but it could be a bug related to your part

Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:21:24PM -0200, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: > I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try > to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. This sounds like hardware, but it could be a bug related to your particular system. Do you

5.3R crashing repeateadly

2004-12-08 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Hello I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes. The message it said in the console is something like "page fault while in kernel mode", excuse-me if I don't remember it verbatim but I just drove home from th