8.0RC2 amd64 - kernel panic running make buildworld

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:52:10 +0200
Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> on 12/11/2009 19:28 Gary Jennejohn said the following:
> > 
> > A safer way to test this is to enter
> > 	set hw.mca.enabled="1"
> > on the loader command line rather than putting it into loader.conf.
> > 
> > I just did this on my "consumer" AMD64 board without ill effect.
> 
> What CPU do you have, could you provide its description from dmesg?
> Did you stress-tested it enough (like parallel buildworld)?
> 

I did about 1/2 of a parallel build world (-j3) and then stopped it.  I
figured, if it lasts that long, it should make it all the way through.

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e (2505.35-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x60fb2  Stepping = 2 Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
  Features2=0x2001<SSE3,CX16>
  AMD Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
  AMD Features2=0x11f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,Prefetch>
  TSC: P-state invariant

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Gary Jennejohn