Re: Strange system behavior

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:19:07AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >2) I have a machine that consistently fails while building NetBSD
> >under NetBSD. It does fine at building NetBSD when running Linux. I
> >tried reporting the apparent concurrency bugs a long time ago, but
> >was largely ignored. If (and only if) you run memtest86 for a day and
> >it passes, try cross-building NetBSD on the box under Linux and see
> >if it works.
> 
> Yuck.  You mean I gotta figure out how to install, set-up, and boot
> Linux?  Ouch!

Before you have to go there -- I've found pkgsrc/math/mprime-bin to be
a good system tester as well, since it not only stresses the RAM but
also the CPU. Similar to what a build does, but of course less hard
disk-intensive.
 Thomas