System freeze on 6.1/2 when running makeworld and dump

[Geoff Roberts]

Hi Kris,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:33 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 07:14:41PM +1100, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can consistantly make my system freeze when building makeworld
> > and running dump at the same time. The system actually locks - I
> > have to hit the reset switch to bring the system back to life.
> >
> > I also get a core dump on current.
>
> Don't keep us in suspense, when you have additional relevant details
> please provide them in your mail!

Thanks for the reply. I have been holding out whilst I have been running 
some more tests to ensure the problem has been resolved.

After trying hard to ensure it wasn't a hardware problem I may have to 
hang my head in shame and attibute this one to hardware. After 
replacing the power supply, ram, a couple of power leads and a couple 
of fans the problem is no longer appearing.

In the end the issue may have been a compination of a poor power supply, 
an overheating graphics card and a shonky power lead. Apart from that 
the system was fine :) I've had this system for a while and it had been 
running fine. However it has obviously aged faster than I have.

I've now successfully run a build of the kernel, a build of KDE and a 
dump of the file system at the same time for a couple of days.

I'm going to retry in current a little later. If there is any issue in 
current I'll submit a core dump.

Kind regards,

Geoff