> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: > > I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly > > related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one > > of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed > > stable. > > memtest86+ would definitely detect a DIMM slot being bad, so running it > for 25 hours successfully means the DIMM and the DIMM slot is likely fine. > Sorry, 2 corrections. :)
1) I ran memtest86+ 3.4 2) If I tried to run the memory test on the slot I thought was bad, it looked like whatever is underneath the memtest86+ (Linux?) would crap out within 6 seconds of startup. I've only tested the "B" slot after running into so many issues with the "A" slot (And I checked, you can run one slot only on this laptop... Dell Inspiron 8200) > > > I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K emails. (All have > > to go through mimedefang, procmail and sendmail... So the system was a bit > > sluggish. I started to get things like : > > > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: KDB: stack backtrace: > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: > > kdb_backtrace(c3053200,1,dbb54c04,dbb54bf0,c0 > > 73ba78) at kdb_backtrace+0x29 > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: getdirtybuf(dbb54be0,0,1,cc1c81e8,1) at > > getdi > > rtybuf+0x27 > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: flush_deplist(c305354c,1,dbb54c04) at > > flush_d > > eplist+0x34 > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: > > flush_inodedep_deps(c216d000,715e,c089bcf8,c0 > > 808b16,ef) at flush_inodedep_deps+0x7d > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: softdep_sync_metadata(dbb54ca0) at > > softdep_sy > > nc_metadata+0x8c > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: ffs_fsync(dbb54ca0) at ffs_fsync+0x33e > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: fsync(c3549600,dbb54d04,1,1,286) at > > fsync+0x1 > > 03 > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: syscall(2f,2f,bfbf002f,80fef20,0) at > > syscall+ > > 0x227 > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: Xint0x80_syscall() at > > Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f > > Oct 10 22:06:29 himinbjorg kernel: --- syscall (95, FreeBSD ELF32, fsync), > > eip = > > 0x28181ca7, esp = 0xbfbf6d1c, ebp = 0xbfbf86e8 --- > > This looks more like a filesystem problem, not a memory problem. All > of the functions listed in the backtrace show UFS/FFS problems and > filesystem metadata issues of some kind. > Yup, sorry. I should have said that I realized it was a disk issue, but that I was thinking that maybe it wasn't really the OS's fault that there are "deeper" problems with the laptop that could be manifesting themselves here. When I sent all sorts of copious debug to Dell they just told me to replace the motherboard completely. I didn't want to spend the $$. At first all the problems manifested as memory, memtest86+ would lock up, "crash", etc with the memory I had. I bought new memory ($50 for a gig) BEFORE Dell just told me to replace the whole motherboard. With the new memory in, only using the "B" slot, it appeared more stable. I found these issues only accidentally. I tend to type "dmesg" when my fingers are idle and my brain is spinning thinking of something and thats when I saw this cruft. > > Booting the machine in single-user mode and run "fsck -y". I'm betting > you'll find errors. If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see > below, however. > Probably could use it, yea. It had locked up a few times so I'm sure the filesystems weren't in great shape. I thought I had offline fsck'd them, but now not so sure. > > I doubt you're going to get much support on this, since you're running > FreeBSD 5.5, which is no longer supported. Believe me: you will get > continual push-back from the rest of the FreeBSD developers asking for > support on 5.5. The RELENG_6 series is on its way out as well, so > you should consider installing RELENG_7 (specifically 7.1-BETA at > this point). > Well, that was 1/2 of the reason why I asked if it was even worth it to trace it out. 1/2 was the fact its 5.5, the other 1/2 was that I've already been told to replace the motherboard. :) I tried going to 6.X on this machine for a few weeks once before, constantly locked up in the booting of the kernel. I haven't had a spare second otherwise to consider going to 7. I didn't think anyone would really want to help on 5.5, but figured I'd toss it out there and see if anyone thought it worth while. Thanks Jeremy. Tuc _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"