Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/01/22/15:07:51
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1010122174148 DOT 28597B-100000 AT is>,
djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Tom St Denis wrote:
>
> > My previous machine was a AMD K6-II. This is an Athlon.
> >
> > > If not, what is different with this machine? If this is the same
> > > machine where previous builds succeeded, what changed since the last
> > > successful build?
> >
> > Um I have four times the memory now, a faster cpu, and a larger hard disk.
>
> If this is a new machine, I'd suspect a hardware problem as the most
> probable cause. Inconsistent crashes usually mean that some memory chip
> is faulty or does not keep up with the CPU and the bus. GCC catches such
> problems quite often, because it's a memory hog, moves large buffers to
> and fro, and runs the CPU at full throttle for prolonged periods of time.
>
> If the CPU is overclocked, turn that off and see if that helps. If the
> CPU cache(s) are set to some aggressive mode, such as write-back, change
> that to less aggressive mode and see if that helps. If the problem
> persists even with vanilla settings of these parameters, get a
> replacement for your hardware.
>
> > Well I get those bugs during every compile. To be honest I think it's my
> > computer, cuz I get "internal compiler errors" in MSVC too.
>
> This is yet another sign that the hardware is the reason.
Geez, you actually helped. Thanks!
I turned off my write back and my "USWC" video mode (says it may cause
problems), I turned on my L2 ECC checked, forced the board to think it was
133mhz 8ns ram and ...
It build all of allegro 3.12 without a single crash.
Thanks alot :-)
Tom
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