From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 20:41:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00494 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 May 1996 20:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (arnie.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.242.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00466 for ; Sun, 26 May 1996 20:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from state.systems.sa.gov.au by arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V4.3-7 #13538) id <01I579J2MQV400BLTC@arnie.systems.sa.gov.au>; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:09:31 +1030 Received: from jolt (jolt.systems.sa.gov.au) by state.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V5.0-4 #13538) id <01I579ISNMW000129D@state.systems.sa.gov.au> for questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:09:20 +0930 Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:11:03 -1000 From: Garth T Kidd Subject: Re: Arrg!! sig 11 X-Sender: garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Message-id: <1.5.4.32.19960527231103.00378874@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Network Services +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | EDS | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA