Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:05:36 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Marina Brown" <marina@surferz.net>, "Stanislav Grozev" <tacho@orbitel.bg>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD constantly crashing Message-ID: <001d01c3e500$2e393e50$2637630a@nic.target.com> References: <20040127053642.GA10191@octavo.daemonz.org> <04012702040502.00743@tamiru>
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> The answer seems to be in your dmesg. > > pid 28555 (qmailadmin), uid 89: exited on signal 11 > > ...that means you have bad ram in your new computer. It's common > for computer stores to sell ram that is less than perfect. Replace the > ram and you should be fine. > > Marina Brown > > That is not the only reason for a signal 11 (or signal 10), just the most quoted. These can also be caused by over-optimized binaries. I often see signal 11s on all my FreeBSD machines when I optimize binaries (just with the system compiler and -O -march=pentium4). However, I NEVER see them under Linux and all tests show normal for the hardware. Simply put, I think this is an overused stock answer to blame the hardware ... no offense to the last poster intended. Tom Veldhouse
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