Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:39:56 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Samara McCord <mccord@zytek.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world exposes memory errors!? Message-ID: <8152.858069596@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:20:40 PST." <199703110720.XAA13364@syzygy.zytek.com>
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> Assuming this is a memory problem, my question is: how is it that this machin e, > which has been running continuously for six months as a server, several domai ns > and websites and some heavy computational processing could avoid finding this > problem while "make world" would expose it? Is there something peculiar > going on here that would stress the system differently than normal usage? Not peculiar, but certainly more stress over a shorter period than most machines seem to experience any other way. The `make world' is a well accepted quality-assurance test for most FreeBSD hardware vendors now, and I know that I certainly won't check off a box as "seaworthy" until it's passed two consecutive make worlds. Nowadays, with machines as fast as they are, I might even consider running 4 or 5 of them over a 24 hour period and test the thermal sensitivity of the system at the same time. Jordan
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