Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:07:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com> Cc: "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@bsi.com.br>, Alexandre Stumpf <stumpf@poa.interage.com.br>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970102130700.237W-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32C84993.605E@kew.com>
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Lenzi, Sergio wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Alexandre Stumpf wrote: > > > Try using a GOOD cpu with a GOOD memory card in that. > > > This kind of problems (cc aborting, sh aborting...) generaly measn bad > > hardware. > > I didn't see the original message on this, but certainly look at the > hardware. I went through hell with OS/2, NT, and Win95 on this Pentium > box because the external cache was bad for six months and I didn't know > it -- I thought the video or ethernet drivers were buggy, until (in a > very similar fashion to your symptoms) I proved to myself that the MS > VC++ compiler would randomly puke with no real exercise of video or > ethernet. Other than OS/2 which is a good system worker, the others don't blugeon the system as hard as FreeBSD does, so you can have bad cache without noticing it. It's odd that Warp didn't die with TRAP 2's. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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