Martin Cracauer | 1 Jan 2006 07:19

Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7

> > 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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