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Date:      Sun, 1 Jan 2006 01:19:20 -0500
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Armin Pirkovitsch <a.pirko@inode.at>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Subject:   Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7
Message-ID:  <20060101011920.A76058@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <43B72A00.2010503@inode.at>; from a.pirko@inode.at on Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:01:52AM %2B0100
References:  <43B6C134.6060802@inode.at> <20051231135851.A65762@cons.org> <43B72A00.2010503@inode.at>

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> > 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.

Martin
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