Re: Buildworld dying

[Walter Venable <weaseal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :Alright, done, but now we're sadly back to the Signal 11:
> :
> :All 4.6 megs of the output: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~venable1/bw.out
> :
> :Or just the last 400 lines (about 175K): 
> :http://userpages.umbc.edu/~venable1/bw400.out
> :
> :-Walter Venable
>
>     If it errors out in a different place each time you run the buildworld
>     then signal 11's and signal 4's are almost always an indication of a
>     hardware cpu or memory problem.  If your BIOS has the knobs you might be
>     able to slow the machine down a bit to try to work around it.  Otherwise
>     the only options are to replace the memory (which might or might not 
>     solve the problem), or get a new machine.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Well, I'm thinking this machine may just get tossed.  I'll give 
memtest86 a go, but there's not much worth keeping on it anyway.  I just 
kept it around for testing out fun things (like DFly).  I do have 
another spare machine at home, but I won't be able to work with that one 
for a few months.

Thanks,
Walter Venable