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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:18:48 +0400
From:      Maxim Maximov <mcsi@mcsi.pp.ru>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using -current on a Fujitsu Lifebook N5010 (no Atheros 802.11, no Ethernet, + hard freezes)
Message-ID:  <40FE5118.3040900@mcsi.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040721102420.GE1009@green.homeunix.org>
References:  <40FE0DF3.4030008@anobject.com> <40FE1576.10206@elischer.org> <20040721102420.GE1009@green.homeunix.org>

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Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:04:22AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>>Jake Hamby wrote:
>>
>>>3) Random freezes
>>
>>>After an average of 30-40 minutes of heavy usage, I get random system
>>>freezes. I am typically running XFree86 and downloading something
>>>or reading web pages at the time it happens. More disturbingly, I am
>>>occasionally seeing files get renamed, for example
>>>/usr/src/UPDATING.64BIT became /usr/src/UPDATING.64BTT. This happens
>>>with or without WITNESS, with INVARIANTS enabled, with or without
>>>ACPI, and with or without SMP. I am using SCHED_ULE and no
>>>PREEMPTION.
>>
>>you are not alone.. I think you just chose a bad moment to
>>jump into -current
>>:-/
> 
> 
> Who else is getting random memory corruption?  I've only ever seen it
> in my life with bad RAM/bad cooling, but this could be bad anything,
> including something spamming random addresses with DMA.  The characters
> 'I' and 'T' are far enough apart such that I wouldn't expect a simple
> memory error which usually seems to appear as a single bit flip.

What are you guys all smoking? 64BTT stands for "64 bit time_t"
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING.64BTT

-- 
Maxim Maximov



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