Re: Strange system behavior

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette
<paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette
> > <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> >> Yes - way back at the beginning - almost two weeks ago.  Ran for
> >> more than 10 complete passes, with zero errors.
> >
> > I don't know how many passes 10 is, but I have found some hardware
> > that won't flake out until it has been running memtest for 20 or
> > 30 hours.
> 
> OK, just to make sure, I've had memtest86+ running now for nearly
> 48 hours continuous, with ZERO errors.

Good. You now can be pretty sure you have well behaved hardware.

I'd try my "build NetBSD on Linux" test. If Linux can do the task and
NetBSD can't, you may be suffering from the same concurrency bug that
I've got on one of my test machines I mentioned.

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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost