Thanks Jan, Pedro, I found an i7 laptop on which I can now reproduce the sporadic fails - about once every dozen or so test iterations. Thanks, Markus. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Kratochvil [mailto:jan.kratochvil@redhat.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:26 PM > To: Pedro Alves > Cc: Metzger, Markus T; kettenis@gnu.org; gdb-patches@sourceware.org; > markus.t.metzger@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] branch tracing support (resend) > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:22:44 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote: > > x86_64 Fedora 16, kernel 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64, running on an > > i7-2620M @ 2.70GHz (an IBM ThinkPad T520) > > IBM ThinkPad X220 > > > > A gz of my /proc/cpuinfo is attached, in case more detail helps. > > The only difference: > yours: microcode : 0x25 > mine: microcode : 0x28 > > microcode_ctl-1.17-25.fc16.x86_64 > > > Regards, > Jan