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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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