AMD64 machine stability problem

[David Xu]

Eric Anholt wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 11:50 +0800, David Xu wrote:
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>>Did anyone encounter stability problem ? I am running X11 on it,
>>and sometimes it suddenly reboots. I hope it is not a mobo problem.
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>I'd been very stable on 5.3-stable on AMD64, unless I was using gdb, in
>which case I would get reboots pretty regularly as of a couple of months
>ago.  Never managed to reproduce that in console, but didn't try too
>hard.  However, I just updated to 6-current, and within 5 minutes got a
>reboot.
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>Note that there has been some discussion that panicing while in X may
>equal reboot these days, though I don't understand why that would be.
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Now, I can always reproduce it:
just run "find /usr/src " in gnome termimal, it will reboots in five 
seconds.