From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 22: 4: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from unique.usn.blaze.net.au (unique.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1295614F91 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidn@blaze.net.au) Received: from labs (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.98]) by unique.usn.blaze.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA09662; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:02:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from davidn@blaze.net.au) Message-ID: <021b01be774e$2f51b170$623511cb@usn.blaze.net.au> From: "David Nugent" To: "Dennis" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Compiler problems Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:02:02 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey writes: > > Quite frequently, particularly when compiling a large program with quite a few > > included modules, I get random assembler errors. Running the make again > > works fine. > > > > Is this a memory or swap space problem? Its beyond annoying. > > Dennis, it's quite obviously not a general problem (how could folks do > buildworlds?) It's possible something in the system is tickling > something in your setup, if your setup is odd, but I'd certainly suspect > my hardware first. > > I've never seen this even once, and I do a *lot* of compiling. I have seen it, at least this same problem - whether it is the same cause or not remains to be seen. It could be as simple as increasing the voltage on your cpu slightly; or even a change of cpu. Some motherboards with auto cpu voltage can rate the voltage a little low with some types of processors. It seems to be a fairly common problem too, and only really comes into play when the processors are used fairly intensively, such as when compiling or using graphics applications. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message