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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: make world on FreeBSD-stable impossible. cc1: ... signal 11
To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:27:57 -0700 (MST)
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> Hi !
> 
> I think I found out, why my system crashed so frequently. Hardware
> problems, as some of you already said. But not the AHA 2940 or
> RAM chips ... no. The CPU ! I clocked down my Pentium P90 CPU
> to 75 MHZ (50 x 1.5) and now everything seems to work fine.
> 
> I'll replace the P90, since it's within the warranty. Puh !
> 3 weeks of hard work to track that down.

Suspect your L2 cache first.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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