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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 02:37:15 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        jdp@polstra.com, rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random craches under heavy(?) disk activity
Message-ID:  <199811240237.SAA12771@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <5830.911860593@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 23, 98 11:36:33 pm"

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> In message <199811232228.OAA00715@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
> 
> >> Well, I would, but I have been running this box
> >> overclocked for more than 6 months now, never had 
> >> a glitch. Reboots only started back when other
> >> people reported such behaviour on the list as well.
> >> Im going to get a spare box and make a serial console
> >> off of it, see if I can get the panic message.
> >
> >It doesn't make any difference how long your box has appeared to work.
> >If you're overclocking it at all, we don't want to see your panic
> >messages.  They are too likely to mislead.  It's just that simple.
> 
> I would actually argue that the longer the box has been overclocked
> the warmer the cpu runs.
> 
> Think "dusty fans" to follow the drift.

And in reality electromigration is something that takes some amount
of time to occur.  The additional heat created by overclocking the chip
doesn't just cause problems instantly, it takes quite some time for the
process to occur.  It may run fine for a day, a week, a month, or even
a year before enough damage occurs to cause a failure mode.


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