From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 8: 5:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3022437B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitch.inducedreality.net (adsl-63-195-109-195.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.109.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B415E43E65 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@bitch.inducedreality.net) Received: (qmail 1069 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Aug 2002 15:05:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Aug 2002 15:05:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David To: Doug Hardie Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > At 0008 -0700 8/28/2002, David wrote: > I had similar problems a couple of years ago. buildworld would hang > in different places every time. I finally got it to work by letting > it run for an hour, then control-Z it to let it stop awhile and then > continue on. By doing that for many hours I got the buildworld to > complete successfully. Someone here then suggested down clocking the > processor as that was a frequent problem with the processor I was > using. I did that and it has run fine since. > -- Sounds reasonable. Out of curiousity, what type of processor did you have that this was an issue with? Also, was this a hardware or software change? (I believe there's a way to do it in software in BSD, just not sure how.) David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message