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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:55:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010117105509.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53775.979755928@critter>

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On 17-Jan-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps you can explain how you're able to trigger this instability
>>with a test script?  Poul-Henning told me he just needed to do a
>>make -j256 world, I did 10 of them without a problem...
> 
> Then you misunderstood me, I don't have anything in the dept
> of SMP hw which can trigger it.

Ok, what _does_ trigger this then?  And what kernel config are you using:
GENERIC?  GENERIC is rather plagued with problems right now due to its bloated
size.  There have been reports of people not being able to boot a freshly
installed system because of the kernel bloat, so you really probably want to be
using a custom kernel until that bug is found and uncovered.

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