Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:36:07 -0500 (CDT) From: mike grommet <mgrommet@ns.insolwwb.net> To: Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs during compiles (!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981018133502.22452A-100000@ns.insolwwb.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810181101330.16905-100000@lionking.org>
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Signal 11 is usually due to a memory problem, but I bet it could also be related to overclocking the cpu... try returning your cpu / bus and such to the right values for the chip and then try again, if that doesnt work you might try swapping out your memory On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote: > > Hi-- > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE on a new desktop machine, and > I've been having trouble lately. Here's my hardware setup: > > ABit BH6 motherboard > Celeron 300A, overclocked to 450 > 64MB SDRAM (PC100) > 5GB IDE hard disk > 3com 3C509B ethernet card > Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA > Matrox Millennium G200 > > Now, I don't know why it's doing this, and lord knows I've tried > to figure it out... but sometimes, during a compile, the machine will just > hang. No more mouse movement, no keyboard input, no activity in any > screens, no network response. The only thing I can do is a hard reset. > > Nothing ever gets logged to /var/log/anything. It's all very > sudden and without warning. > > Sometimes, my "make" processes will die unexpectedly with a "gcc > caught signal 11" error. I suspect that may be related, though I can > generally just "make" again and it will resume without trouble. But > usually, that's a sign that it will out-and-out hang in a few minutes. > > The bizarre thing is that this only seems to happen when I'm > compiling. It happened once before when I was doing a large NFS transfer > and playing an MP3 audio file at the same time, but every other time (~15 > now) it was at some random point in a make. > > Does anyone know of a way I can narrow down my options for > figuring out what this problem might be? I've tried isolating it to NFS > and to my Sound Blaster, since this only started after I enabled SB > support in my kernel and did some NFS mounts (on the same day); but it's > crashed now with neither of those enabled, so I'm back to square one. > > Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated... :) > > Brian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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