Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

[Peter Holm]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:02:21AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 07:56, Peter Holm wrote:
> >There's not much to report, but if you have spare time you could run
> >the test your self. Different HW is always a good test parameter.
> >   
> 
> Does this mean that there were no failures at all for years?
> 

No, of cause not. Take a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/ls.html for problems
reported. Most if not all have been analyzed and fixed.

> The reason why I asked was because I started getting system freezes on 
> 8.1-PRERELEASE under heavy use. Before, 8.0-STABLE was very stable under 
> the same load. So I remembered about kernel stress tests in case they 
> might have higher failure rate after some recent 8.1 changes. But of 
> course there are other factors like, possible NVidia driver updates or 
> maybe memory getting bad, etc.
> 
> Yuri

I urge you to build a debug kernel and report the details of the
problem. If you have a specific test scenario I'd be happy to try and
reproduce it.

-- 
Peter