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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, chat@Freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM troubles in -current ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009221632230.51468-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000922162447.jhb@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> The symptoms you describe (runs fine for a while and then dies) are very
> indicative of hardware that is overheating and then having errors, so you
> also probably want to check your fans, etc.  Running a buildworld pushes the
> machine harder. :)  Also, having gcc generate code that jumps into the
> middle of an instruction is a very, very low probability.  Apparently, the
> solar activity is at one of its peaks this year, thus resulting a lot more
> failures than usual.  Significantly more failures from what I've been told.
> Having tens of machines start spewwing ECC corrections and eventually
> errors after only being up for a couple of days and stuff like that.

Without wanting to make a comment about the possible likelihood of
solar activity causing this particular problem:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_936000/936606.stm

:-)

Kris

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