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Subject: Re: needs a tester with an SMP 7.0 box
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Xin LI wrote:
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> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> if you have a 7.0 SMP (8 way if possible) box and can stand
>> a little  down time, I'm looking for someone to test the following:
>>
>> This snippet may freeze the process after a while:
> 
> I have tested this on a 2*E5335 setup which is 2 way 4-core Xeon.  What
> are you expecting from the test case?  Will "no news is *the* good news"
> work? :-)
> 
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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it continuously forks children that exit.,

when it goes bad, then in top, you will see some of the children not 
exiting and staying present for ages.
if aster 10 minutes you do not see any children hanging around the 
problem is not occuring.