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From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Can hardware problems result in SIGSEGV and SIGBUS?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:13:07 +0100
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Hi friends,

can you imagin a broken hardware as the cause of busy processes getting
killed rather randomly with SIGSEGV and SIGBUS? For some days now, I get
these errors from GCC when I compile rather big sources, like GCC
itself. But it is not just GCC, each program that is busy enough using
some more memory. I double checked that there *is* enough swap space,
swapinfo reporting only 16% useage. I recompiled my kernel
(2.1.0-RELEASE) and installed it again. Even programs that only use
libc.so are crashing. I am completely stucked! Do I have to replace
hardware components? A new processor? How can I test this, I mean, I do
not have the mony to buy a new i586/133 just to see that the new one
does not help.

any hints are appreciated,
-Gunther

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Gunther Schadow-----------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany
Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin Univerity Hospital, Berlin.
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