Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:38:47 +0200 From: stephane@e2c.com (Stephane Legrand) To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6-200 Has anyone successfully done a 'make world' ? Message-ID: <v01510103b015cec38527@[195.25.51.10]>
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>> 3.) Does anybody have any clues as to what excatly is dieing in the >> "make world" process? > > When CPUs are non-idle for extended periods (such as what occurs during >a "make world"), they get hot. My K6 appears to have developed a sensitivity >to heat and giant heat sinks with thermal compound can't keep it cool enough >to be reliable. It dies anywhere from 1 hour to 2.25 hours into the make >world, depending on the quality of the heat sink, how warm the room is at >the time, and the phase of the moon. Dies in this case means that a process >exited with a a weird syntax error or a sig-11. > So, the problem with the K6 would be caused by heat problem when the CPU are heavily load during a long time ? Simply a suggestion, but may be a test like several parallel intensive POV calculations (or others intensive CPU operations) during some hours should lead to the same errors and should definitely show that the problem come from the CPU and not from FreeBSD, no ? Just my 0.02$ :) *** I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB IN COMPUTER SCIENCE *** *** If you are interested --> http://www.lituus.fr/stephane/ *** - To save the Internet, stop using Micro$oft softwares NOW ! - Do you want a REAL OS ? -> http://www.freebsd.org/
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