From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 13:34:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from accord.grasslake.net (accord.grasslake.net [206.11.249.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F78437C018 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA03261; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:35:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <000e01bff1c0$c2abb130$b8209fc0@campbellmithun.com> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" , References: <20000719170435.A210@Fedaykin.here> Subject: Re: Signal 11 on 4-Stable buildworld; bad memory or what? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:34:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" To: | Before blaming freebsd, either sigbus errors or | signal 11 should be checked for either bad hardware or memory. I don't know why people assume I'm blaming FreeBSD. I had someone else telling me not to blame FreeBSD, too, and believe me I don't. Even though I've only been using FreeBSD for a few months (after years of Linux abuse), I have YET to have a world break (on any of the three machines I'm currently running it on)other than on this glitch or when the comitters declare open season on -STABLE. I was ALREADY assuming broken hardware, and was surprised that the pounding the machine got under Windows didn't reveal any problems. From my original message: --- Since I haven't seen a anyone else's world breaking this way, I'm assuming that this is a hardware problem -- but what kind? Memory? I have a spare Pentium 166 CPU and extra SDRAM I can swap, any clues as to where to start? --- The postscript to this story is I ran memtest86 (after getting the suggestion from here) overnight and it reported errors in my RAM. Replaced with a fresh stick of RAM and all is well. (As an aside, I was checking for info on my board, an Asus TXP4, on USENET and supposedly it will do an unadvertised 75 and 83Mhz FSB. Anyone know how overclockable K6-233 CPUs are?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message