Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:35:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: dg@root.com Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/14141: 3.3-RELEASE crashing often Message-ID: <14337.16073.943600.686805@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com> References: <199910101920.MAA81395@freefall.freebsd.org> <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>
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>>>>> "David" == David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes: >> 948 fpp = newfdp->fd_ofiles; 949 for (i = newfdp->fd_lastfile; i-- >> >= 0; fpp++) 950 if (*fpp != NULL) 951 (*fpp)->f_count++; 952 >> return (newfdp); 953 } David> ... >> Then I thought about it... and fpp itself should not become NULL >> in this case... it's being incremented from some valid pointer >> value. >> >> Ideas? David> Smells like a hardware problem. I had a lot of problems with David> AMD chips when I did reliability testing with them. One of the David> problems turned out to be a real bug in the chip (it only David> worked reliably with 32MB or less of RAM). They are also very David> sensitive to heat...you might verify that the heat sink is David> properly installed and that the fan is working. Both verified. In fact, we've done a complete hardware swap (although it's still an AMD chip that we're using). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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