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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:32:14 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        David <david@bitch.inducedreality.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 12
Message-ID:  <f05111b28b992ab452397@[10.0.1.90]>
In-Reply-To: <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net>
References:  <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net>

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At 0805 -0700 8/28/2002, David wrote:
>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

CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU)

I believe it was a 450 MHz originally and I down clocked it to 400. 
It has to be a hardware change.
-- 
-- Doug

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