From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 18:43:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0A316A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:43:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.mmedia.is (smtp.mmedia.is [217.151.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448B143D53 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:43:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from baldur@foo.is) Received: from acabus (tesla.foo.is [217.151.166.96]) by smtp.mmedia.is (8.12.10/8.12.10/1.0.1) with ESMTP id i7HIhECn002259 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:43:15 GMT From: Baldur Gislason To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:43:14 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408171843.14459.baldur@foo.is> Subject: Weird crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:43:17 -0000 I have a computer running FreeBSD 5.2.1-REL, I've tried 3 different video cards (two nvidia and one matrox), I've tried two different motherboards (Aopen AK77-8XN and Aopen AK77-600GN), I've tried using just a single memory DIMM out of the two, I've tried two different processors (AMD AthlonXP 2500+ 1.83GHz and AMD Duron 1300MHz). I also tried moving the swap partition on a different hard drive. The problem is this: Programs crash, namely Xfree86. Xfree86 always stops on signal 6 (SIGABRT), and it seems to happen mostly when I've filled the RAM and have started to use quite a bit of swap. I'm mostly filling the ram with lots of browser windows opening heavy graphics off the network. Any debugging ideas? brgds. Baldur Gislason