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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:12:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Morgan Davis <mdavis@io.cts.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Random dives out of make world
Message-ID:  <199703050212.SAA26845@io.cts.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702282115.NAA24625@io.cts.com> from Morgan Davis at "Feb 28, 97 01:15:23 pm"

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For those who've been following this thread...

At one time I wrote:
> Before totally giving up and RMA'ing the motherboard, there was one
> last BIOS item I decided to change: Internal CPU cache.  I disabled it
> and started the make world process.  This has effectively turned the
> computer into a 286, as "make world" has been running for almost 12
> hours now and it's only in "libc".  But, it hasn't crashed!  So, maybe
> it's just a bad CPU.  I've got a replacement to try on Monday.

This turned out the be the culprit: a bad CPU.  Replaced it with with
another Pentium 120 yesterday, built 'world' and a new kernel
simultaneously and successfully in 5 hours.  All is well.

--Morgan



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