Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:30:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk> To: Hans Zuidam <hans@brandinnovators.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems building 2.2-current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961203132344.13464B-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199612030940.KAA27169@truk.brandinnovators.com>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Hans Zuidam wrote: > Hi, > > Most likely your suffering from the dreaded ``signal 11'' bad memory > problem. I'm having these too with more or less intermittent > occurences. The problem seems to be a bad memory chip somewhere. > Another cause could be overheating. None of the memory test programs > I used seemed to be able to find anything bad. They never do unless > the chip is a smelly brown blob ;-) Also look at: > <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>. When things got really bad I That URL doesn't seem to work. > reseated all simms and that made the sig11s go away... only to > reappear after a while. Hhhhm. I've had such a memory problem before. Then it was bad cache RAM which caused intermittent signal 11. However, that's been fixed and these problems only occur during a compile. The system "seems" to work perfectly otherwise. Also some of the signals the compile were failing on were: 6, 4 etc. Does this still sound like RAM? Mark Powell - Unix Information Officer - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 5936 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@salford.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) <A HREF="http://www.ucsalf.ac.uk/~mark/">Home Page</A>
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