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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:13:20 -0400
From:      Mike Fratto <mfratto@nwc.com>
To:        Ben Kadish <Ben.Kadish@happcontrols.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compiling 4.5 kernel locks system tight.
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020410170958.02cae0c8@mail.nwc.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020410153505.030f2630@mail.happcontrols.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020410161446.02ccbbd0@mail.nwc.com>

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OK. I have to admit, I thought this suggestion was, well, questionable.

I did check the fan and it was spinning. Nothing hot. So what the hell? 
Kept the shell off and re-ran make. Ran to completion.

I hate computers.

Thanks Brian.


At 03:37 PM 4/10/2002 -0500, Ben Kadish wrote:
>Actually, I had this happen recently. Check your CPU fan. (:
>
>I had a dual P3 machine that was operating at tiny CPU loads, but as soon 
>as I did something compute-intensive (e.g. compiling the kernel), the 
>machine would tank. It turned out that both of my CPU fans were dead.
>
>Something to check, anyway.
>
>At 04:15 PM 4/10/2002 -0400, Mike Fratto wrote:
>>Ok, never used FreeBSD before so while I work on this, I thought I would
>>ask the following:
>>
>>I want to work with IPSec on FreeBSD.
>>
>>I just downloaded and installed 4.5 (disk 1). Went to the Handbook and
>>started reading how to use IPSec. I install the kernel source and add the
>>compile options IPSEC, IPSEC_ESP, IPSEC_DEBUG, and device gif 4.
>>
>>Run /use/sbin/config OK.
>>Run make depend OK
>>Run make. Starts to compile eventually the system hangs. No keyboard input,
>>no disk activity, nothing. Let it run 12 hours, no change.
>>
>>Hard reset.
>>
>>Take GENERIC config, run config, make clean, make depend, make (in the
>>proper directories) and compiles for a bit then the system hangs.
>>
>>Edit /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (?) to remove devices/options that I am not
>>using. Recompile using steps above. Hang.
>>
>>I don't see anything alarming in /var/log/messages. Just boot messages. I
>>don't find any core dumps. It's a mystery.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>My system:
>>Intel 8510 motherboard with PII 533, 256 MB ram, Quantum Fireball 9 GB IDE.
>>No SCSI.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
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