From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 2 15:16:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28960 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com (train.tgci.com [205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28955 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from belana (belana.tgci.com [205.185.169.100]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA10403 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:21:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199707022221.PAA10403@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:24:06 +0000 Subject: Core dump signal 11 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, On a 2.2.2-R machine I put together a few weeks ago and walked away from for a while I just noticed: Jun 24 15:00:01 moat /kernal: pid 20869 (atrun), uid 0: exited on siganl 11 (core dumped) I know I've seen "signal 11" discussed here, but can't find it in the archives. My recollection is that during a "make world" a signal 11 indicates bad memory, either ram or cache. Is that indicated here? Anything else? And a newbie question please? When a core dumps, where and what does it dump? tia, Riley