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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:48:29 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        kris@FreeBSD.org, sparc64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: hardware and package builds
Message-ID:  <FE618411-8C88-4BCF-A172-D17E24321E05@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071114.052521.135026097.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <472DAFBE.9070603@FreeBSD.org> <472E4B8D.2020902@alaska.net> <47348106.8080001@alaska.net> <20071114.052521.135026097.hrs@allbsd.org>

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On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Hiroki Sato wrote:

> Well, let me explain the current situation of my e4500s first.  I
> have three e4500s with 10-14 CPUs online for experiment and package
> building now, but some of them are often down probably because some
> hardware failure.

JFYI:

pluto2.freebsd.org (ia64) has been running reliably for a
long time with FreeBSD 6.x. Now that the machine has been
upgraded to FreeBSD -CURRENT do I experience machine check
aborts. These MCAs have been observed on pluto1.freebsd.org
for a while when it was running FreeBSD 7.x and it was
attributed to the hardware and Kris stopped package builds
on that machine.

Now I'm actually thinking that it's a FreeBSD problem,
because it now all of a sudden is a problem on pluto2 and
both machines are reliable otherwise -- that is, only
when doing a 4-way parallel package build do these MCAs
happen. An 8-way parallel buildworld is fine.

This does not mean that it's a hardware problem in your
case of course, but keep in mind that it may also be a
kernel bug...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com





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