Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:46:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Wong <wongk@datadesign.com> To: Philip Inglesant <philip@dircon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel build, memory problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970627094415.12297B-100000@k7.datadesign.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970627130358.2457E-100000@admin.dircon.net>
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sounds like you have h/w memory error. or delay access time for the memory is incorrect in your bios setup. good luck, Ken On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Philip Inglesant wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:29:01 +0100 (BST) > From: Philip Inglesant <philip@dircon.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Kernel build, memory problems > > > I am running FreeBSD on a Pentium 200 with 128MB ram. > > I have set "option MEMSIZE=131027" in the kernel config file. Of course, > for this first kernel re-build, i had to have the machine running with > only 64MB ram installed. Then i rebooted on the new kernel, and it saw > the memory no problem: > > on bootup, console and /var/log/messages entries: > > Jun 27 12:20:02 www-cache2 /kernel: real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) > Jun 27 12:20:02 www-cache2 /kernel: avail memory = 128126976 (125124K bytes) > ... > > But now, with the 128 MB in place and running on the new kernel, i'd like > to re-build the kernel again. I find that i can (usually) do the config > and make depend without problems, but when doing the make, it always > falls over somewhere with a core dump, usually signal 11, Segmentation fault. > > I have been able to do the make if it do it in stages, ie. if as soon as > it crashes, i just type "make" again and off it goes... after two or > three stages, i finally builds a bootable kernel. > > I am concerened, not just about why this is happening, but to know > whether this is likely to be a sign of instability in applications i run > on the machine. I want it to run as far as possible unattended as web > cache, so it needs a lot of ram and it needs to be reliable. > > Philip Inglesant > Direct Connection >
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