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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Michael Toth <freebsd.mtoth@queldor.net>,
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Subject: Re: 7.0 Crashing
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Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:16:39PM -0400, Michael toth wrote:
>> I had someone run a Dell Diags CD on the machine and it passed all tests.
>>
>> Before that it core'd again; here is the backtrace from that one.
>>
>> Is there any other want (maybe in freebsd) to test the hardware better? 
>> and/or should I submit a bug report for this?
> Sure, you can submit bug report. From my POV, there is actually no
> data to resolve it.

i.e. you should have no expectation that anyone else will be able to 
resolve it either.

Note that diagnostics can tell you when a machine has failed, but can 
never tell you when a machine is working perfectly.

Kris

> 
> You may use memtest86 (Google for it) for memory/chipset/cpu cache
> test.