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Date:      Sun, 5 Apr 2009 22:36:23 -0400
From:      Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, delphij@delphij.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Failure to make world for RELENG_6_4
Message-ID:  <20090405223623.0fb6150b@kan.dnsalias.net>
In-Reply-To: <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net>
References:  <20090402044358.GA34249@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20090406020446.GD78037@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net>

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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:09:57 -0700
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:
> 
> - From what you have described, it's likely that there is some memory
> issue.  The FreeBSD Virtual Memory system tends to use all physical
> memory and this could be a problem for faulty memory chips (i.e. it's
> more easy for FreeBSD to trigger problems).
> 
> If you have access to the host system and possible, would you please
> try to install FreeBSD directly and see if the problem still occurs?
> 
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
JFYI,

this seems to be the issue with combination of FreeBSD 6.x and VMWare
hypervisor when running with more than one virtual CPUs. I see it will
the full range of VMWare products, from Player to Fusion and
Workstation. FreeBSD 7 and up are working fine.


-- 
Alexander Kabaev



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