Re: Seeing system-lockups on recent current

Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> writes:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time
> > with my freebsd-current/i386 system.  It is a dual Athlon
> > system.  [...]
> It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem started
> occuring.

I experienced similar problems on a dual Athlon system (MSI K7D
Master-L motherboard, AMD 760MPX chipset, dual Athlon MP 2200+) which
is barely a couple of months old.  I ended up reverting to RELENG_5_1.
With -CURRENT, both UP and SMP kernels will crash with symptoms which
suggest hardware trouble.  With RELENG_5_1, UP is rock solid (knock on
wood) while SMP crashes within minutes of booting.  I've run out of
patience with this system, so I'll keep running RELENG_5_1 on it until
someone manages to convince me that -CURRENT will run properly on AMD
hardware (maybe around 5.3 or so...)

Now, my shiny new 2.4 GHz P4, on the other hand...  *drool*

DES
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