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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David <david@bitch.inducedreality.net>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 12
Message-ID:  <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net>
In-Reply-To: <f05111b26b9922985d730@[10.0.1.90]>

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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Doug Hardie wrote:
> At 0008 -0700 8/28/2002, David wrote:
> I had similar problems a couple of years ago.  buildworld would hang
> in different places every time.  I finally got it to work by letting
> it run for an hour, then control-Z it to let it stop awhile and then
> continue on.  By doing that for many hours I got the buildworld to
> complete successfully.  Someone here then suggested down clocking the
> processor as that was a frequent problem with the processor I was
> using.  I did that and it has run fine since.
> --

Sounds reasonable.  Out of curiousity, what type of processor did you have
that this was an issue with?

Also, was this a hardware or software change?  (I believe there's a way to
do it in software in BSD, just not sure how.)

David


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