FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

Andre Guibert de Bruet andy at siliconlandmark.com
Tue Jan 6 19:59:18 PST 2004


Evren,

I'm not aware of any memory test utility that runs under FreeBSD. If one
is out there, it would most certainly require some type of kld to allow it
to have direct access to random parts of system memory. I consider it is
bad mojo to run hardware tests on a machine booted in multi-user mode. In
order to get a definitive answer (and eliminate false-positives which
could show up due to kernel bugs) and save yourself a lot of time and
hassles, boot their floppy or bootable cd.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 zen8061 at zen.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not not know if there is a port for this product.  But I use it a lot.
>
> http://www.memtest86.com/
>
> -- Original Message --
> From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen at ispro.net.tr>
> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy at siliconlandmark.com>
> Send: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 02:49:05 +0200
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD
>
> do you know any good programs in "ports" that can test the ram chips?
>
> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>My proxy server is crashing with random intervals. I wonder if it is
> >>possible to debug this? What is the procedure? Is there a web page
> >>explaining how I can extract enough information about this problem that
> >>a developer can look into it?
> >>
> >>dmesg and few errors are below...
> >
> >
> >
> > Read
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
> >
> > Send the output of the commands on this page to the list:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html
> >
> > Random crashes are sometimes (More often that people like to admit) caused
> > by faulty memory.  Start by swapping all the memory in the machine with
> > known-good memory before attempting to track down bugs in the kernel.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >>Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> >>Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
> >
> >
> >
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