Using -current on a Fujitsu Lifebook N5010 (no Atheros 802.11, no Ethernet, + hard freezes)

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:18:48PM +0400, Maxim Maximov wrote:
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:04:22AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> >>Jake Hamby wrote:
> >>
> >>>3) Random freezes
> >>
> >>>After an average of 30-40 minutes of heavy usage, I get random system
> >>>freezes. I am typically running XFree86 and downloading something
> >>>or reading web pages at the time it happens. More disturbingly, I am
> >>>occasionally seeing files get renamed, for example
> >>>/usr/src/UPDATING.64BIT became /usr/src/UPDATING.64BTT. This happens
> >>>with or without WITNESS, with INVARIANTS enabled, with or without
> >>>ACPI, and with or without SMP. I am using SCHED_ULE and no
> >>>PREEMPTION.
> >>
> >>you are not alone.. I think you just chose a bad moment to
> >>jump into -current
> >>:-/
> >
> >
> >Who else is getting random memory corruption?  I've only ever seen it
> >in my life with bad RAM/bad cooling, but this could be bad anything,
> >including something spamming random addresses with DMA.  The characters
> >'I' and 'T' are far enough apart such that I wouldn't expect a simple
> >memory error which usually seems to appear as a single bit flip.
> 
> What are you guys all smoking? 64BTT stands for "64 bit time_t"
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING.64BTT

Haha; never believe everything you read I suppose.

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