I think the memtest86 version you used was either corrupt or has some form of incompatibility with those dell boards. Interestingly those processors are core 2 xeons, which are nice and the 3.02's that were supposed to be in it I think probably made it in to someone's pocket as they walked out the door, LOL (I am joking here btw).
TBH I am a bit baffled. I've never had a problem with dell hardware in the past that wasn't pretty obvious and dell wouldn't fix. I'm sorry I can't help any further but I would love to know what the cause turns out to be. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frederic Breitwieser Sent: 08 May 2010 15:18 To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues. Cc2iscooL: >>Well, you do keep getting memory errors, I know you've said you've >>switched out sticks, but have you actually tried any sort of diagnostic program yet? Upon your suggestion, I can now say yes, I have. Using memtest86 off a boot floppy, I get a memory error right away, and it repeats for each test. I swapped out the memory again with the old ones, and got a memory error right away, in the exact same spot. I powered down another server, yanked it's memory, shoved it in, got a memory error again in the exact same spot. So, I went on a memory-swapping, memory testing bonanza on all 16 servers, since the time I was doing this was in the green zone (i.e not the production day). Every server had memory errors, somewhere, regardless of memory, etc. So I pulled out of storage a brand new, never used Dell 1750 motherboard and put a pair of brand new, never used 1gb sticks (from Dell, in the Dell packaging) on that, ran memtest86, and it failed too. ::headscratch:: I booted every PC in the shop with memtest86, and every one of them failed the test also. Now I'm suspect of that testing program. I shared all this because I thought maybe you'd find this humorous. I did until I had to reassemble everything back the way was at 2am :) Dave Williams: >>I would be interested to see what the kernel actually thinks the >>processor/processors is/are and what processor specific options >>are being loaded. Just a random thought. Fair question, but it seems Centos believes the processors to be Genuine Intel. When I listed it out it showed four processors (two per core I imagine) but I only pasted one here to keep the message somewhat short. The result was a surprise because one of my techs who is no longer with us had upgraded this machine to 3.02Ghz processors. Seems they didn't make it into the machine !?!? cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2385.596 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 3 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 7 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips : 4770.10 --- If I goggle for "hlds_run line 321" I get no shortage of hits, and it seems a lot of folks are having this problem in recent months with not to many solutions. I wonder if steam/valve know about this or if those of us with this issue just have unhappy hardware/OS. I found the linux engine 53 binaries and copied them over, and got the same results, thinking going back one version might help. I tried this on another Dell server, and got the same results. Same if I force the amd, i484 or i686 binaries to load, either server. This morning I pulled a Compaq DL580 out of the "to scrap" pile and ran the same version of memtest86 as above, and the machine passed 100% despite it's vintage. Hooray Compaq. I get Linux on it this afternoon and continue testing. The sad thing is I used to run several hlds-linux servers when day of defeat first came out as a mod to go over halflife, and wasn't a steam game. You know, the old won-id network and all that. It's too bad steam keeps their software in binary form, a lot of problems can be resolved by compiling server daemons on the server it is to run on. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
