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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Processes dying with signal 11
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> 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.
>
always at the same point or in random places?

if first - it's probably not hardware problem.


> 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.  I
> created a test program which allocated 500MB memory to force the system
> into swap (my iBook only has 512MB).  After a few minutes dhclient
> crashed but the test program kept running.  Is this what normally
> happens when hardware's going bad?

isn't it going out of swap?