From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 9:37:11 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 7290837B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9042943E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.90] (66-81-181-162-modem.o1.com [66.81.181.162]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7SGb2L86510; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net> References: <20020828080340.B1064-100000@bitch.inducedreality.net> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:32:14 -0700 To: David From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message