On 2006/05/30 23:28, Jirtme Loyet wrote: > In fact this is not just a problem with my machine. > I bought a dedicated server (www.dedibox.fr). I installed OpenBSD 3.9 on it. > Other people did exactly the same and the have the same problem.
That means it's less likely to be a failure particular to your machine, but it doesn't mean the hardware is certainly good. > This is NOT a hardware which is disfunctioning. This must be a problem of > compatibility. >From what I understand, these boxes have VIA C7 CPU, CN700 northbridge (DDR2 RAM, V4 system bus) - if it's not an EPIA-EN then it's something similar. By using such very new hardware, you might expect to spend some time chasing faults - maybe compatibility problems, maybe design faults. Perhaps you could try some 'officially-supported' OS, and stress it very hard (compile complex software, e.g. kernels, gcc, maybe while running software like 'stress' as found in /usr/ports/sysutils/stress' at the same time, etc). This can not prove that the hardware is _good_ (since the other OS is likely to use the CPU/RAM differently it may just avoid using those instructions which fail - or, who knows - may be there's some hardware fault which has been quietly worked-around in the other OS). But if it fails there too, there's clearly a wider problem.
