From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 10 13: 1:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77E414D58 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA16425; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:00:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: dg@root.com Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/14141: 3.3-RELEASE crashing often In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:57:45 PDT." <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:00:45 +0200 Message-ID: <16423.939585645@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >> 948 fpp = newfdp->fd_ofiles; >> 949 for (i = newfdp->fd_lastfile; i-- >= 0; fpp++) >> 950 if (*fpp != NULL) >> 951 (*fpp)->f_count++; >> 952 return (newfdp); >> 953 } >... >> >> Then I thought about it... and fpp itself should not become NULL in >> this case... it's being incremented from some valid pointer value. >> >> Ideas? > > Smells like a hardware problem. I had a lot of problems with AMD chips >when I did reliability testing with them. One of the problems turned out >to be a real bug in the chip (it only worked reliably with 32MB or less of >RAM). They are also very sensitive to heat...you might verify that the heat >sink is properly installed and that the fan is working. I can sign on that petition, I have a K6-2 where which hangs when it tried to do FP. Works fine with the FP emulator forced on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message