Re: spurious reboots

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:57:06AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:33:20AM +0300, AR wrote:
> > Maybe you could try swapping the RAM chips in their sockets or try a  
> > memtest. It is likely that your problem is hardware related. If not, try 
> > a live cd with say, Free/OpenBSD and compile stuff there, see if your  
> > problems persist.
> 
> It wokred fine with NetBSD 4, si I have trouble to buy the hardware
> issue.

It could be, because NetBSD 5 stresses hardware in a much different way.
It makes heavy use of locked instructions for example. I know some AMD
processors have bugs in this area.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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