Subject: Re: resets under high load
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Andreas Kahari <ak+netbsd@freeshell.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 03/13/2004 14:13:43
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:15:07AM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:32:49AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > In article <200403101116.40196.stephen@degler.net>,
> > 	Stephen Degler <stephen@degler.net> writes:
> > > Thanks for the suggestion, but no luck.  I just pop straight back to
> > > the bios startup screen, with no output on the serial console.
> > 
> > <WILD GUESS>
> > Could it be a too weak power supply? High CPU load under X11 (when your
> > graphic cards is consuming more power) might be just enough to overload
> > it causing the reset.
> > </WILD GUESS>
> 
> I have a 550W PSU.  I done't believe I should have a problem
> with that, and I *had*.  (only once so far though)

Make that "twice"...  :-(

Reset while building meta-pkgs/xfce4 and CVS updating src.  It
was untarring a lot of tar archives when it reset.

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