Hi everyone,
Very nice thread. A pity that it developed after I ordered my N5105 box in May from AliExpress. I ordered it barebones and added 8GB RAM (Crucial CT8G4SFRA32A) and an NVMe (SK hynix Gold P31 500GB PCIe). I ran Memtest for 16h with no problems and then went ahead and installed proxmox and pfSense on it. It worked will, but after 7-10 I had the first random freezes and crashes.
I am troubleshooting for about a month now. I reinstalled pfSense with the recommended settings (I did some things wrong initially there), which helped a little. Then I thought it might be the temperatures. To I installed a heatsink on the NVMe and added a fan right on top of the unit. Not so much fanless anymore.
The CPU information looks OK to me, but I am no expert:
The temperatures in proxmox look good as well:
I know that I might have adopted to early and I am in discussions with AliExpress, because Topton started ghosting me (just like @dazagrt and @ReturnedSword) after some initial messages when they learned that I know my way around IT and hardware. I filed a claim with AliExpress now, but of course I am outside the return/refund window.
The weird thing is that proxmox itself runs very well, but pfSense randomly freezes/reboots.
It would be great to get some more ideas on how to get this thing stabilized.
Thanks in advance for some tips
Very nice thread. A pity that it developed after I ordered my N5105 box in May from AliExpress. I ordered it barebones and added 8GB RAM (Crucial CT8G4SFRA32A) and an NVMe (SK hynix Gold P31 500GB PCIe). I ran Memtest for 16h with no problems and then went ahead and installed proxmox and pfSense on it. It worked will, but after 7-10 I had the first random freezes and crashes.
I am troubleshooting for about a month now. I reinstalled pfSense with the recommended settings (I did some things wrong initially there), which helped a little. Then I thought it might be the temperatures. To I installed a heatsink on the NVMe and added a fan right on top of the unit. Not so much fanless anymore.
The CPU information looks OK to me, but I am no expert:
Code:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 156
Model name: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N5105 @ 2.00GHz
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 2000.000
CPU max MHz: 2900.0000
CPU min MHz: 800.0000
BogoMIPS: 3993.60
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 128 KiB
L1i cache: 128 KiB
L2 cache: 1.5 MiB
L3 cache: 4 MiB
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3The temperatures in proxmox look good as well:
Code:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +39.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0: +35.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +35.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +35.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 3: +35.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +119.0°C)
nvme-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
Composite: +49.9°C (low = -0.1°C, high = +82.8°C)
(crit = +83.8°C)
Sensor 1: +42.9°C (low = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
Sensor 2: +42.9°C (low = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)The weird thing is that proxmox itself runs very well, but pfSense randomly freezes/reboots.
It would be great to get some more ideas on how to get this thing stabilized.
Thanks in advance for some tips
