AMD64 machine stability problem

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sun Feb 20 05:53:00 GMT 2005


At 1:05 PM +0800 2/20/05, David Xu wrote:
>Eric Anholt wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
>Now, I can always reproduce it:
>just run "find /usr/src " in gnome termimal, it will reboots in
>five seconds.

What happens if you enter the same find command on a console
session?  (ie, outside of X11)

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