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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 486dx4-133 and FreeBSD Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 19:00:38 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32016146.28FF@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31FE92A9.4497@vcnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Jon Rust wrote: > > I'm in the midst of trying to track down random crashes. I think I've > narrowed it (with the help of people in this group) to either simm > problems or the processor. > > Are there issues with AMD? I've got two machines running on 486dx4's. > Not likely to be the processor; my secondary server is running an AMD 5x86-133 with no trouble. The only time I have experienced random crashes, it has turned out to be a problem with the external cache. Of course, main memory could also be the culprit here; I'd suggest you disable external cache and let the system run a little slower for awhile, to see what happens. That will at least tell you which sort of memory is causing the problem. I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |