Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7

Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko at inode.at
Sun Jan 1 14:44:09 PST 2006


Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>>It's more likely to be a general instability from broken hardware.
>>>
>>>Use prime95 (ports/math/mprime) to test your processor and thermal
>>>stability (36 hours or so), and memtest86 (seperately).
>>
>>I guess I should have mentioned that other systems work fine and run 
>>stable (and memtest returns no errors)
>>(Linux was up several days compiling stuff like OO etc)
> 
> 
> Still, we have seen that several times before, machine stable in
> Linux, not in FreeBSD and vice versa.
> 
> Using prime95/mprime ist the best way to ensure this.  Run it for 36
> hours in the torture test mode.

10 hours returned no error nor a warning (I'm pretty impatient...)

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Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at


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