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From: newhouse@win126.nas.nasa.gov (Paul Newhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Signal 11
Date: 29 May 1996 09:12:49 GMT
Organization: NAS
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Message-ID: <4oh4eh$icn@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>
References: <nD356D43A@longacre.demon.co.uk> <jrvalverde-2705961902450001@b12mc6.cnb.uam.es>
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In article <nD356D43A@longacre.demon.co.uk>, searle@longacre.demon.co.uk
(Michael Searle) 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)? I have had them occasionally, but mostly on new software I
> hadn't tried before. I have never had gcc failing (and I have done several
...

I disabled on-chip caching and this problem stopped.  Maybe it's related to
problems in the hardware being driven to hard BUT, this stopped the problem
on two systems P133, P100.

Good luck,
Paul

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