Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:11:03 -1000 From: Garth T Kidd <garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arrg!! sig 11 Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960527231103.00378874@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au>
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> I suspect dodgy hardware.
... or maybe not. Corey, upgrade to 2.1-STABLE; it's a little less touchy.
I managed to get my number of sig11 show-stoppers down from a few an hour to
one or two a day by upgrading from 2.1-RELEASE. Of course, they were only
eliminated when I got a decent motherboard, but hardware isn't the _only_
factor to consider if people are having sig11 problems.
Win95 ran perfectly even on my old, buggy motherboard -- I guess it wasn't
pushing the machine all that hard. Is there any way we could compile up a
forgiving, slow-mode FreeBSD kernel that is similarly friendly? Anyone?
> FYI its a pentium 100, 16MB RAM (70ns.. I guess this may be a problem)
> 2 WD IDE disks, 1 IDE CDROM, Diamond Stealth S3 868 DRAM PCI card...
I was running 70ns memory, too. Still am, but this new board seems to deal
with the timing a lot better.
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