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Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
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> >    Do you have any history of seeing the watchdog timeout problem on your
> > machine?
> 
> On this machine no - but it's the only one running em0. On other
> machines running bge0 then, yes, I see it a lot. But those are all
> SMP machines, aside from one. On that one I am currently building
> the latest 6-STABLE and when it's done (give it a couple of hours)
> I will give it a shot with your code and see what happens.

   Another data point: After rebooting my machine, the program no longer
causes the problem. It appears that something else has to occur first on
the machine to put it into a state that makes it suspectible to the
program.

-DG

David G. Lawrence
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