From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 6 20: 0: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5DB14E9A for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA24081; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990606195957.B27526@cpl.net> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:59:57 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Dave Andrzejewski , Craig Burgess Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot during make world References: <375B3374.92EC775@home.net> <000601beb090$eeb26340$0200000a@locutus.awyeah.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <000601beb090$eeb26340$0200000a@locutus.awyeah.net>; from Dave Andrzejewski on Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 10:53:33PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hash: SHA1 > > Right. Like I said - some hardware problems only manifest themselves under > really heavy load, like building world. Compiling apache versus compiling > freebsd is like stepping on an ant versus spearing a whale. (Sorry, I > couldn't think of a better analogy. Really.) > > But you get the idea. Again, my machine that has had 85+ day uptimes can > compile small things like bind and apache just fine, and I can even build a > kernel. But when it comes to making world, it just dies. I had a machine that exactly the same way. it could compile small things, and even a kernel. But it died on a world. It had other symptoms, like the email server would die every so often. After replacing the RAM, this same server has been rock solid ever since. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message