From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 22:44:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1776916A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:44:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from smartmx-04.inode.at (smartmx-04.inode.at [213.229.60.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05D643D55 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:44:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.193] (port=55579 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-04.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EtBvr-0007hZ-Jc; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:44:07 +0100 Message-ID: <43B85B36.6040603@inode.at> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:44:06 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer References: <43B6C134.6060802@inode.at> <20051231135851.A65762@cons.org> <43B72A00.2010503@inode.at> <20060101011920.A76058@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20060101011920.A76058@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:44:09 -0000 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...) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at