On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:48:36AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > what you write is frightening :) > > Tobias Ulmer wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 01:18:18AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >>Tobias Ulmer wrote: > >>>full dmesg please > >>Here it is: > >>OpenBSD 5.6 (GENERIC) #94: Wed Aug 13 13:54:32 GMT 2014 > >>m...@credogne.gentiane.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC > >>real mem = 166998016 (159MB) > >>avail mem = 159440896 (152MB) > >>mainbus0 at root: SUNW,SPARCstation-20 > >>cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 50 MHz, on-chip FPU > >>cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l) cache enabled > >This CPU module (Voyager iirc) has issues. It's stable most of the time, > >but small programs (like chmod, cat, touch, ...) crash in random places. > Voyager? I don't know, checking: > http://mbus.sunhelp.org/modules/index.htm > > I would identify it as SM50, the latter revision, with the large heatsink, > not the round one.
I just had a look, mine are 501-2708 > I suppose you mean by unstable under OpenBSD? It was very stable under > solaris 2.5. Yes, under OpenBSD. I don't know about other OS. > Would it crash the program always in the same place? No. > > It is the first time I run OpenBSD on this machine, converting it from > Solaris. It have a dual-HyperSparc module from Ross, but during OpenBSD > install it apparently failed, becoming unreliable. I hope it is just a > coincidence of the age and that OpenBSD doesn't "fry" modules :) After a > while it is up I get back into OBP and at reboot I get a memory failure. I > suppose the cache controller or the cache went bad. Cooling issue? My SS10/SS20 work fine with a HM150S-512 > > I still have a SM40 I think, for emergency. I will try that and see, after > being certain that I can reproduce these error from reboot to reboot. Once I > get the crash I can type "make install" and reproduce it in the same place, > but a make clean will have it work and have crash ln in another package. > > > Riccardo
