Random Freeze

[Mark Ovens]

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing the same problem on my dual Athlon box. The freezes are 
>> totally random AFAICT, sometimes when the machine is just idling.
>> 
>> I've not used any CPU-specific make options but may try setting some to 
>> see if it makes a difference. One thing though, I only have
>> 
>> cpu		I686_CPU
>> 
>> set, not I486_CPU and I586_CPU as well, maybe that could be a problem?
> 
> AFAIK, that's a proper setting for Athlons. What I recommend is you
> shouldn't play with make options before setting up a stable system
> (sorry if that's too obvious).
> 
>> I'm running -CURRENT and the build I did on 8 April didn't have this 
>> problem but it started with the next build I did a couple of weeks ago. 
>> I've cvsup'd and rebuilt a couple of times since, the last on 25 July, 
>> but the problem persists.
> 
> I don't have much experience with CURRENT (and with SMP) but if you
> didn't change the config files it looks like something in the code (this
> is possible in CURRENT, right?). Only thing I can think of is reading
> freebsd-current and searching the archives. Not much from me, sorry.
> 

I've noticed something; it only seems to freeze when I'm in X. I had the 
machine up for over 30 hours at the command line yesterday whilst I 
upgraded some ports, including KDE (which was why I did it from the 
command line). I rebooted it when I'd finished. I've never had it stay 
up anywhere near that long since the 8 April build. Some conflict 
between XFree86 (4.3.0) and -CURRENT/5.2.1-RELEASE?

Also, my machine dual-boots with XP and that stays up for days at a time 
so, in my case at least, I doubt it's hardware, plus I've run memtest86 
and it was OK.

Thanks for the input. I'm going to subscribe to freebsd-current and 
search the archives.

Regards,

Mark

> Regards,
> 
> Karol
>