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From: cees@iaehv.nl (Hans Zuidam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: cc1 dies at random...
Date: 28 Nov 1995 13:37:24 GMT
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In article <497hi1$bcv@wqs1.ysi.com>, kfurge@wqs1.ysi.com says...
>
>Cees Lambrechtse (cees@iaehv.nl) wrote:
>: Hi,
>
>: On my pentium (120MHz, 32MB, AHA2940, 2GB SCSI) cc1 occasionaly
>: dies during long compilations.  It then either dies with a signal
>: 11 or 10.  Simply restarting the compilation works, but cc1 will
>
>I had the same problem until I disabled the "Hidden DMA Refresh" option 
>on the BIOS.

Sadly I do not have this option in my BIOS.  Jordan suggested that it
is a bad chip of some sort, but that would be weird too as no other
programs die unexpectedly.  Even when I try to load the machine (+/-70MB 
heavy swapping and +/-80 processes of all sorts) nothing dies.  Weird.
Maybe I get an idea later on (I'll try to ktrace it.)  Thanks for 
responding anyway.

				Hans Zuidam