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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>
To:        Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Signal 11 on 4-Stable buildworld; bad memory or what?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007171031170.189-100000@botbay.net>
In-Reply-To: <003401bfeffb$19083020$b8209fc0@campbellmithun.com>

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> The FreeBSD install I'm using had previously been running on a generic Dell
> Pentium 200 and lived through a half-dozen buildworlds without breaking.
> 
> 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?
> 

Memory is likely the problem, but also look at the L2 cache and anything
else that may cause memory corruption.

One of my BSD box was having SIGSEGV's when compiling and occasional
reboots.  I have had no instability since replacing the L2 cache



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