athlon-mp daily hang 5.2.1

[Jose Lima]

Check out this PowerNow! patch/module,
http://demira.shopkeeper.de/~sascha/nx9005/
Its supposed to automatically set processor voltage depending on the
hw.powernow.state set in the kernel.
I havent got it to work automatically but I can manually set it to state
2 or 3 and the tempeture and fan noise drop down dramatically.
Note that you do sacrifice speed for heat and noise. To me this is not
an issue, my XP 1600 is still fast running at 1ghz for my needs.
I just got started programming so I cant help out :), yet... 
maybe some of our smart delevopers will look into it further.


Jose Lima


On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:32, Ray Seals wrote:
> I have the same problem with my laptop.  I'm running an AthlonXP-M.  My
> problem is due to overheating.  The machine hangs for 30 seconds and
> then runs for about 30 minutes and then hangs again.  Then it powers
> itself off.
> 
> Ray
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:10, Patrick Crosby wrote:
> > Just about every day, my FreeBSD system hangs.  I set up
> > dumpdev/dumpdir, but I never get anything in /var/crashes.  I'm not
> > sure what to do to debug the problem.  It usually happens during a
> > 'gmake -j4...', but has happened at other times as well.
> > 
> > What can I do to get more information about what is causing the hang?
> > 
> > I have the following in rc.conf to try to get a kernel crash dump:
> > 
> > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"
> > dumpdir="/var/crash"
> > 
> > And I'm running a kernel with debug symbols.  I'm running FreeBSD
> > 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 with 2 athlon mp processors, using the GENERIC kernel
> > config file (except I commented out INET6 so that firefox will resolve
> > domains in a timely fashion): 
> > 
> > ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ (2000.08-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x6a0  Stepping = 0
> >   Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> >   AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
> > real memory  = 1073217536 (1023 MB)
> > avail memory = 1033003008 (985 MB)
> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> >  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
> >  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0
> > ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Patrick
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