Re: [opensuse]  [OT] unstable system - still trying to identify the culprit. Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 17:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> Per Jessen wrote:
>>     
>>> You will undoubtedly remember the discussion about the stability
>>> problems on my new workstation from a couple of weeks ago.  I'll
>>> quickly sum up -
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>>> And the machine still crashes under load - even just a little bit. 
>>> I run two copies of mprime, plus firefox and such, and after 15-20
>>> minutes, I get the automatic reboot.
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>> Out of (personal) curiosity, why do you run 2 copies of mprime for
>> these tests? Wouldn't the one copy do?
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> Presumably, one wants to run one instance per core or per processor (or 
> per core per multi-core processor) to fully saturate the processing 
> capacity of your system.
>   

In which case shouldn't Per be running 4 copies of mprime (as he has a 
quad-core CPU)?

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