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From: Samara McCord <mccord@zytek.com>
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Subject: Re: make world exposes memory errors!?
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>Not peculiar, but certainly more stress over a shorter period than
>most machines seem to experience any other way.  The `make world' is a
>well accepted quality-assurance test for most FreeBSD hardware vendors
>now, and I know that I certainly won't check off a box as "seaworthy"
>until it's passed two consecutive make worlds.
>
This is very interesting, and also kinda scary.  Here we thought we had
a robust system.  Previously we have run "lmbench" a few times, which
has exposed memory errors before.  I guess we have a new benchmark.

Samara McCord
mccord@zytek.com