From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 10:41: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E339815640 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:40:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18817 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:40:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:40:55 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912231840.TAA18817@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad RAM? xxxx exited on signal nn Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fbsd@typhoon.co.jp wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Dec 23 15:19:21 somehost /kernel: pid 12394 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Dec 23 15:19:23 somehost /kernel: pid 95 (named), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Dec 23 15:20:00 somehost /kernel: pid 12397 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 4 > Dec 23 15:20:23 somehost /kernel: pid 12398 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 4 > ...skipped... > Dec 23 16:01:12 somehost /kernel: pid 12477 (getty), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > > The archive seems to say that either this is a bug in 2.2.x or the system > has bad RAM. Any one else has seen this problem? Should I just replace > the RAM? Thanks. Such random, non-reproducible signals are almost certainly a sign of hardware failure: - bad RAM - overclocked RAM - inappropriate RAM timings in the BIOS setup - bad CPU - overclocked CPU Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message