Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:00:45 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dg@root.com Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/14141: 3.3-RELEASE crashing often Message-ID: <16423.939585645@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:57:45 PDT." <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>
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In message <199910101957.MAA11927@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >> 948 fpp = newfdp->fd_ofiles; >> 949 for (i = newfdp->fd_lastfile; i-- >= 0; fpp++) >> 950 if (*fpp != NULL) >> 951 (*fpp)->f_count++; >> 952 return (newfdp); >> 953 } >... >> >> Then I thought about it... and fpp itself should not become NULL in >> this case... it's being incremented from some valid pointer value. >> >> Ideas? > > Smells like a hardware problem. I had a lot of problems with AMD chips >when I did reliability testing with them. One of the problems turned out >to be a real bug in the chip (it only worked reliably with 32MB or less of >RAM). They are also very sensitive to heat...you might verify that the heat >sink is properly installed and that the fan is working. I can sign on that petition, I have a K6-2 where which hangs when it tried to do FP. Works fine with the FP emulator forced on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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