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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:29:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        jack@germanium.xtalwind.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 crashes/reboots
Message-ID:  <199811260129.RAA04766@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981126111206.E67961@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 26, 1998 11:12: 6 am"

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According to Greg Lehey:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 1998 at 19:23:59 -0500, jack wrote:
> > I have 3 boxes that have each run 3.0-RELEASE and 3.0-CURRENT
> > (approx 11/18 and 11/24 versions of current).  All have completed
> > at least one make world. Two of them, a dual P133 and a single
> > PPro 200 both with SCSI only, have not crashed.
> >
> > The third, a dual P166 with IDE only, has crashed three times,
> > twice running RELEASE and once running CURRENT as of 11/24.  Two
> > of the three crashes were with a NFS mounted /usr/ports, at the
> > time the first there were no NFS mounts.
> >
> > This leads me to ask, are the people seeing crashes using IDE?
> > Are any SCSI folks experiencing them?
> 
> I'm sure the answer is ``yes'' in each case.  And until you describe
> the crashes, the answer is also meaningless.  What kind of problems
> have you been having?
> 

I've never owned IDE hardware.  I can crash my scsi system by
firing off a "make -j 32 world", a "make" in /usr/ports/devel/ddd,
and then in a kernel build tree continously run
"make depend; make -j 8 ; make clean;"

In essense, you need quite a bit of disk activity.

-- 
Steve

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