Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:03:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate : make buildworld NEVER works!!!!! Message-ID: <200006201703.e5KH3oF27201@lerami.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006201255150.89345-100000@mindcrime.bit0.com> "from Mike Andrews at Jun 20, 2000 12:58:06 pm"
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And make sure you have enough power. My AMD K6-2 550 had wierd problems till I got a beefier power supply and new case. Also check the timings as Kevin suggests. Now it runs nicely (see http://www.lerctr.org/~ler/SetiStatus.html for an idea on whats at my place). Larry Rosenman > > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: > > > > > It seems odd that we have had at least a half dozen reports of signal > > > 11s during buildworld over the past 3 days. I have the same problem > > > with my K6-2 system. The hardware has been rock solid for months, but > > > I now can't buildworld without a "signal 11" exactly as has been > > > reported here. Very suspicious, at least. > > This may sound stupid, but have you checked your CPU fan lately? My > primary machine at home (K6/2-300 at the time) ran great for forever, then > very suddenly started doing the sporadic signal 11 thing during "make > world". Turns out the CPU fan had died. It was hard to hear the > difference in a machine with 5 disks in it... :) > > The same board did the same thing when I swapped out SIMMs for DIMMs and > forgot to reset the memory timings in the BIOS back to the defaults for > the new memory. > > > Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ > VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY > Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville > www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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