From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 17:17:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8AA106564A for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f216.google.com (mail-fx0-f216.google.com [209.85.220.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D168FC15 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so432385fxm.43 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:17:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6HU0A5DQj9ZXYivsT0ulBTiu0/G5mMtPN1LD1+Vvu6w=; b=HxBzAhWdcBeK5K23gzUu9ZtzvdUebtFNPjtboSuN9JwkvhEcJfxcXIGuW6kweExlts 8BC2lFIspOqBVMWw0YGbZkmNcYMGsA2CL7bXbG/U6XgES1NtTM1gLwhkRzl+9CXONXRr JJA899LlDZqm6RUWCeBmg2fc+XDQ1pUq8pPg0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cV6EFYSaGhZ0jSz4v/JiXf1ooYjyxaBdLgW1Ed6yeLQ+fvmzVfPNBINoO2BEJkdO5W Ag2ha92CouGinpuJtTqJWnvrTYt9MhoKKT4Q23Q6og3UaqhjM5noBSwermFmdvC+4Nf1 lYIS648DpHTcMvMPCN5DuX+4twOpi4miM/Isw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.116.15 with SMTP id k15mr2737791bkq.118.1245431827805; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:17:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090619175537.36128909@gluon.draftnet> References: <20090619175537.36128909@gluon.draftnet> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:17:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310906191017lddaaba3nfce8bb820af44e0c@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes dying with signal 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:17:10 -0000 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > I've been trying to run a buildworld using the clangbsd branch on my > G4 iBook, but without success. I'm currently running a fairly > up-to-date HEAD: > > FreeBSD mac.draftnet 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 16 22:07:11 BST 2009 > brucec@mac.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBOOK powerpc > > The problem I see is that after a few hours of running buildworld, when > it starts building clang itself, 'as' crashes with a signal 11. > > I'm wondering if this is the normal case of bad memory/HDD/CPU or > something else because it also causes several other processes to crash, > notably dhclient and sendmail, but I've also seen tcsh crash too. =A0I > created a test program which allocated 500MB memory to force the system > into swap (my iBook only has 512MB). =A0After a few minutes dhclient > crashed but the test program kept running. =A0Is this what normally > happens when hardware's going bad? > Unfortunately, yes. Does the build fail in the same place everytime? Usually hardware failure will cause randomly placed SIGSEGV errors. --=20 Glen Barber