From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 13:13:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA03355 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.195]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA03345 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00405; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:07:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:07:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Drew Derbyshire cc: "Lenzi, Sergio" , Alexandre Stumpf , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems ... In-Reply-To: <32C84993.605E@kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Lenzi, Sergio wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Alexandre Stumpf wrote: > > > Try using a GOOD cpu with a GOOD memory card in that. > > > This kind of problems (cc aborting, sh aborting...) generaly measn bad > > hardware. > > I didn't see the original message on this, but certainly look at the > hardware. I went through hell with OS/2, NT, and Win95 on this Pentium > box because the external cache was bad for six months and I didn't know > it -- I thought the video or ethernet drivers were buggy, until (in a > very similar fashion to your symptoms) I proved to myself that the MS > VC++ compiler would randomly puke with no real exercise of video or > ethernet. Other than OS/2 which is a good system worker, the others don't blugeon the system as hard as FreeBSD does, so you can have bad cache without noticing it. It's odd that Warp didn't die with TRAP 2's. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major