From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 22:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19685 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19676 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:58:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA25561; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:58:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... In-Reply-To: <199801220637.XAA07251@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I don't think the ram is bad, it's in another machine replacing some 32's and working fine, I just think maybe the combo of like fast page ECC vs non-ECC, or some variation in the types was messing it up under stress. I wasn't putting anywhere near a load on it when it was running NT, just installed it to see if it would boot. On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > [ I am messing around with a 3 processor P6/233 system to potentially > > do some heavy-duty database work, and it hasn't been able to > > complete a make buildworld yet. Crashes with a wide variety of > > errors. Pop in the NT drive, works fine. FreeBSD crash. > > Just about to shoot the damn thing, and...] > > [ ... memory problems ... ] > > One wonders what NT wasn't telling you... if it's bad, it's bad. > I think maybe the difference was that under NT is was undetectably > bad. Which is bad. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >