Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-10-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday, October 03, 2010 2:49:27 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 14/09/2010, at 16:49, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> So, you either have to disable one of them or upgrade to a more recent > >> version. > >> The version you need is r206183. The latest stable/8 would do, obviously. > > > > I'll

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-10-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14/09/2010, at 16:49, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> So, you either have to disable one of them or upgrade to a more recent >> version. >> The version you need is r206183. The latest stable/8 would do, obviously. > > I'll try updating to stable/8 - I've been meaning to anyway. > > Just to find t

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10/09/2010, at 22:00, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> uname is.. FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #6 >>> r202903M: Sun Jan 24 13:45:11 CST 2010 >>> dar...@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET amd64 > > Oh, I should have payed attention to the version. > I think that

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/09/2010 10:28 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 10/09/2010 05:36 Daniel O'Connor said the following: >> Hi, I recently tried enabling MCA (ie w.mca.enabled=1 in loader.conf) on an >> 8.0-STABLE system and found that it would cause the system to hang after a >> few minutes of uptime. >> >>

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10/09/2010, at 16:58, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon II X2 240 CPU & >> 4Gb of RAM. > > Do you also have superpages enabled (vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled)? > If so, please try to turn them off and report back if that helps. Yes, they are - I will

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/09/2010 05:36 Daniel O'Connor said the following: > Hi, I recently tried enabling MCA (ie w.mca.enabled=1 in loader.conf) on an > 8.0-STABLE system and found that it would cause the system to hang after a > few minutes of uptime. > > The screen would go black and the monitor would turn off (

Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I recently tried enabling MCA (ie w.mca.enabled=1 in loader.conf) on an 8.0-STABLE system and found that it would cause the system to hang after a few minutes of uptime. The screen would go black and the monitor would turn off (regardless of wether it was in X or not) and only a hard reset