From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 05:35:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13257 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 05:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13206; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 05:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from europa.salford.ac.uk (europa.salford.ac.uk [146.87.3.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA28017 ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 05:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk by europa.salford.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:30:09 +0000 Received: from localhost by plato.salford.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vUuvE-000G2iC; Tue, 3 Dec 96 13:30 GMT Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:30:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell To: Hans Zuidam cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems building 2.2-current In-Reply-To: <199612030940.KAA27169@truk.brandinnovators.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Hans Zuidam wrote: > Hi, > > Most likely your suffering from the dreaded ``signal 11'' bad memory > problem. I'm having these too with more or less intermittent > occurences. The problem seems to be a bad memory chip somewhere. > Another cause could be overheating. None of the memory test programs > I used seemed to be able to find anything bad. They never do unless > the chip is a smelly brown blob ;-) Also look at: > . When things got really bad I That URL doesn't seem to work. > reseated all simms and that made the sig11s go away... only to > reappear after a while. Hhhhm. I've had such a memory problem before. Then it was bad cache RAM which caused intermittent signal 11. However, that's been fixed and these problems only occur during a compile. The system "seems" to work perfectly otherwise. Also some of the signals the compile were failing on were: 6, 4 etc. Does this still sound like RAM? Mark Powell - Unix Information Officer - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 5936 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@salford.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) Home Page