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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:49:48 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "John H. Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs
Message-ID:  <D6C6D10F-599F-487F-A0FE-04964BE36AE8@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4C8A24F5.7040100@freebsd.org>
References:  <E0962551-398E-49C7-BFB6-496AB58B2779@gsoft.com.au> <4C89DE32.9050402@icyb.net.ua> <4C8A24F5.7040100@freebsd.org>

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On 10/09/2010, at 22:00, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> uname is.. FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE =
#6
>>> r202903M: Sun Jan 24 13:45:11 CST 2010
>>> darius@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET  amd64
>=20
> Oh, I should have payed attention to the version.
> I think that this is a known and resolved problem.
> There is a hardware bug in AMD 10h processors that is triggered by =
combination
> of enabled MCA and FreeBSD superpages.
> So, you either have to disable one of them or upgrade to a more recent =
version.
> The version you need is r206183.  The latest stable/8 would do, =
obviously.

I'll try updating to stable/8 - I've been meaning to anyway.

Just to find the spare time to do it :)

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