From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 13:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CAC37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D0443E42 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15086; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:49:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCD82DD.7090707@owt.com> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 13:49:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Neil Doody , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SLow down or do in chunks "makeworld" References: <031b01c287ee$e55081e0$0200a8c0@b1> <20021109211810.GC32110@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:52:33PM -0000, Neil Doody wrote: > >>Firstly appologies for my repeat post, the first one didn't go through >>after 24 hours I sent it again, but it was stuck in a que. >> >>Now my problem, im having the problem of signal 12's when running a make >>world. > > > Are you sure it's signal 12? This is "illegal system call" which > usually means you have accidentally upgraded your userland to > 5.0-CURRENT. > > If you actually meant signal 11, this is likely to be failing hardware > (RAM, CPU cooling, etc) and you should read the FAQ entry on this > subject. > > >>Is there anyway to make perhaps run slower, because im told its when a >>lot of write activity is going on the hdd. > > > This is unlikely either way. If you have failing hardware you need to > identify and replace it, because it's not going to get better, and it > will continue to cause you lots of problems. I had an old Thunder 186 CCPM system that developed a sticky bit in memory and everything I touched had that bit in it. The boot memory checks never failed. The signals are trying to tell you something but are you listening. Hindsight is always great :). Kent > > Kris -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message