Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:17:10 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: iBook G4 chipset failure causing segfaults? Message-ID: <20090627071710.36c4d2a0@gluon.draftnet>
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I've recently found that my G4 iBook is causing programs to segfault when they start going into swap: the effect is worse on -current but I'm also seeing it on 7.2. For example, if I run a program to allocate 500MB the system will swap out most programs since I only have 512MB RAM. After a while dhclient and sendmail segfault while the test program keeps running; I've also seen tcsh and login segfault too as I logout. I originally found the problem when building clangbsd, where 'as' would segfault when it started building the large C++ files that come with clang. I can run a normal buildworld so I guess this is more of a problem with the chipset (caused by swapping?) than a memory problem? I've run the Apple Hardware Test utility over 30 loops without any errors - has anyone else seen this problem, and is it likely that the hardware is simply starting to fail? -- Bruce Cran
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