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Date:      	Sun, 22 Feb 1998 01:12:27 -0500
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics
Message-ID:  <19980222011227.62224@math.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802220607.WAA00271@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 10:07:25PM -0800
References:  <19980222010353.57237@math.vt.edu> <199802220607.WAA00271@implode.root.com>

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On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 10:07:25PM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> >and a P90 cpu (clocked to 100 - has been that way for about 2 years
> >without problems).

>    Would it be possible to either slow the CPU back down to 90MHz or replace
> it with a 100Mhz one? Just a test...it is possible that the instruction mix
> in the kernel has changed in a way that is provoking the problem. A GPF in
> the kernel is quite rare and if the overclocked CPU wasn't the cause, would
> be unlikely in the traceback that you provided.

Yes, I'm glad he asked about hardware, otherwise I wouldn't have given
the overclocked CPU a second though.  I'll go in tomorrow and do that
(hopefully I can find the motherboard book).  I'm building a config -g
kernel now and hope to debug from it soon...



-matt

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