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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:35:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/14141: 3.3-RELEASE crashing often 
Message-ID:  <14337.16073.943600.686805@trooper.velocet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>
References:  <199910101920.MAA81395@freefall.freebsd.org> <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>

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>>>>> "David" == David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:

>> 948 fpp = newfdp->fd_ofiles; 949 for (i = newfdp->fd_lastfile; i--
>> >= 0; fpp++) 950 if (*fpp != NULL) 951 (*fpp)->f_count++; 952
>> return (newfdp); 953 }
David> ...
>>  Then I thought about it... and fpp itself should not become NULL
>> in this case... it's being incremented from some valid pointer
>> value.
>> 
>> Ideas?

David>    Smells like a hardware problem. I had a lot of problems with
David> AMD chips when I did reliability testing with them. One of the
David> problems turned out to be a real bug in the chip (it only
David> worked reliably with 32MB or less of RAM). They are also very
David> sensitive to heat...you might verify that the heat sink is
David> properly installed and that the fan is working.

Both verified.  In fact, we've done a complete hardware swap (although 
it's still an AMD chip that we're using).

Dave.

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