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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:20:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1 crashing under load
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 at 10:07, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 at 11:51, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > Using a kernel with WITNESS and INVARIANTS sometimes results in
> > the problem being caught earlier.
> 
> Hm, I had hoped not to have to recompile the kernel for this, but maybe 
> that's the way to go. I'll look into that, thanks.

Well, I've compiled the kernel with a few debug knobs - now the system is 
much slower (and system load is much higher) but it hasn't rebooted in 2 
days now. Did somebody say "Heisenbug"? :-)

Christian.
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