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From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and behaviour under pressure.
Date: 4 Sep 1996 11:05:42 +0100
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Jonathan Chen (jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) said:
: I'm running 2.1.5R on a measley '486 with 16Mb RAM with the GENERIC
: kernel; and I've noticed that `sometimes' when I'm running a series
: a compiles (eg building a new kernel), the compiles all start to fail
: with bus-errors ("cc1 died with signal 10") if I load up the machine
: while the compiles are running.
I would suspect poor quality hardware here. Have you tried this on a
different machine? Unix tends to be much less forgiving about bad hardware
than systems like Windows or dross. In particular, running gcc under
stressed low quality machines with Linux used to be notorious for causing
bus errors and that sort of thing. I would assume that the same holds for
*BSD.
Nick