amd64/108774: Reboots/seizes during compiles

[Coleman Kane]

On 2/4/07, Justin James <j_james at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> It is all new hardware. PSU has been swapped and behavior persists. All
> drive and drive power cables were swapped as well. RAM passes Memtest86
> with
> flying colors. System runs like a top except for during compilation.
> Amount
> of uptime is irrelevant. Hardware monitors do not indicate overheating
> condition. Have any similar errors been reported with a Core 2 Duo E6300
> system with amd64?
>
> - Justin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:05 PM
> To: j_james at mindspring.com; kris at FreeBSD.org; freebsd-amd64 at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: amd64/108774: Reboots/seizes during compiles
>
> Synopsis: Reboots/seizes during compiles
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: kris
> State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 4 23:04:49 UTC 2007
> State-Changed-Why:
> You have failing hardware.  Check RAMk, power supply, cooling,
> cabling, etc.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108774


I have had similar problems with an amd64 laptop (Athlon64 Mobile). If it is
running full-bore (2.2GHz), then it will shut itself off or reboot itself
while compiling or doing heavy processing of data. If I knock the speed down
to 1.6GHz, the system is perfectly stable. I am guessing that the system
(under Windows) was not meant to be run at full-speed all the time.

--
Coleman Kane