From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 27 21:19:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.stsi.net (atlas.stsi.net [208.236.212.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC77514DA6 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rws@stsi.net) Received: from localhost (rws@localhost) by atlas.stsi.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id AAA00160 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 00:19:28 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: atlas.stsi.net: rws owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:19:28 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: rws@atlas To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: R: Spontaneous reboot while CPU usage is high In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990527204731.00e60d80@cpl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that if the machine crashing is bothersome enough to ask on the mailing lists, that is enough to make it important. I can only think of a few tasks that require that extra tiny bit of speed to make the machine undependable. And those few tasks arent even worth it. . . Personally, I think if you can afford to put hardware's life spans on the line, you can afford to buy a slightly faster machine. ;) On Thu, 27 May 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > At 08:52 PM 5/27/99 -0400, Chuck Youse wrote: > >I hate to point out the obvious, but generally, folks, CPUs are rated for > >given clock speeds for a reason. If you're having strange software > >problems, the first thing to do is stop overclocking. If you can't > >reproduce the problem when running at the appropriate, rated clockspeed, > >then you know what your problem most likely is. > > The problem with then most likely be not enough cooling. :) I wouldn't > overclock a system that your livelyhood depended on, but less important > systems that could use the speed, why not? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message