On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:51:32PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > Sorry for the late response on this, but I just debugged similar issues on > > a Tyan S2892. The problem there was that the system would panic in unusual > > places under load. The root cause was that the BIOS was not down-clocking > > the DIMM speeds under high-load situations (e.g, all DIMM slots > > populated), which caused random memory corruption. Updating to BIOS v2.00 > > fixed the problem. > > > > Make sure you are running BIOS v3.04 or later on your S2882. The BIOS > > download for that motherboard is: > > > > http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2882.html > > > > The other option is to remove DIMMs from the system. > > > > Updating the bios is the first thing I did. IIRC, I'm at 3.05. > The "Memory modified after free" is a real problem somewhere > deep inside devfs. See cognet's last commit to tty_pty.c. > > However, I'll look into the DIMM timing issues because I have > been experiencing some lock-ups (not panics) when my system > is under heavy load. I've tested the memory with memtest86+ > more than once, and it appears to be good. ok, if its reproducible, then I'll butt out. I wasted a week tracking the bad memory timing issue, so tyan opteron problem nails are getting a whack with my upgrade-BIOS hammer. :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Feb 07 2006 - 23:55:45 UTC
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