Seeing system-lockups on recent current

[Don Lewis]

On 10 Oct, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> > For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time
>> > with my freebsd-current/i386 system.  It is a dual Athlon
>> > system.  [...]
>> It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem started
>> occuring.
> 
> I experienced similar problems on a dual Athlon system (MSI K7D
> Master-L motherboard, AMD 760MPX chipset, dual Athlon MP 2200+) which
> is barely a couple of months old.  I ended up reverting to RELENG_5_1.
> With -CURRENT, both UP and SMP kernels will crash with symptoms which
> suggest hardware trouble.  With RELENG_5_1, UP is rock solid (knock on
> wood) while SMP crashes within minutes of booting.  I've run out of
> patience with this system, so I'll keep running RELENG_5_1 on it until
> someone manages to convince me that -CURRENT will run properly on AMD
> hardware (maybe around 5.3 or so...)

My Athlon XP 1900+/AMD 761 UP box is happily running a late October 6th
version of -current.