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From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Signal 11
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 12:47:59 BST
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root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote:

> 

> In article <nD356D43A@longacre.demon.co.uk>, Michael Searle
> <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> Does processes exiting on signal 11 always mean bad hardware (probably
>> memory or mainboard), or can they be caused by other things (like buggy
>> executables)?

> If it is code that has been running on other, idential configs, most of
> the time it is bad hardware.  There are sometimes other causes (like
> corrupted binaries, or strange kernel problems), but those are less
> common.

I don't have any other PCs to test it on - does anyone know of any problems
with sox or olvwm (the processes giving signal 11) or xperfmon++,
xdaliclock, xterm, xfm (that I was running at the same time)?

All of these are straight out of packages.  I am running a -O2 kernel, but I
think one of the signal 11s was before I changed, although after I got rid
of stuff I didn't need from GENERIC.

-- 
Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk