Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 7.0 a few days ago, but when I try to do something intensive like kernel compilation, I get random crashes -- most often Internal Compiler Error: Segmentation Fault.
Now, this is usually a sign of some sort of hardware problem. The only thing that puzzles me is that my Linux installation on the same box can compile away for hours without a single ICE or anything of that sort. I tried the usual: checking RAM, underclocking CPU, cleaning the dust from the case, twiddling with BIOS settings, unplugging almost everything I don't necessarily need, and checking the disk. None of these helped in any way.
So I'm wondering if this could perhaps be a software error after all -- FreeBSD is the only OS that's having this kind of problems on this hardware. Perhaps it's just some driver misbehaving that could easily be fixed by changing its settings or something.
The box is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on M2NPV-MX motherboard with two 512 MB Kingston DDRAM sticks, two PATA HDDs and nVidia GeForce 7300 GT. It's a 32-bit installation so that I can have nVidia graphics drivers even though the CPU is 64-bit.
Anyway, I'd love to hear some suggestions -- are there any known problems with that set of hardware? Any tips on system settings that could help tracking the problem down? I'm really out of ideas what to try with the hardware itself...
I installed FreeBSD 7.0 a few days ago, but when I try to do something intensive like kernel compilation, I get random crashes -- most often Internal Compiler Error: Segmentation Fault.
Now, this is usually a sign of some sort of hardware problem. The only thing that puzzles me is that my Linux installation on the same box can compile away for hours without a single ICE or anything of that sort. I tried the usual: checking RAM, underclocking CPU, cleaning the dust from the case, twiddling with BIOS settings, unplugging almost everything I don't necessarily need, and checking the disk. None of these helped in any way.
So I'm wondering if this could perhaps be a software error after all -- FreeBSD is the only OS that's having this kind of problems on this hardware. Perhaps it's just some driver misbehaving that could easily be fixed by changing its settings or something.
The box is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on M2NPV-MX motherboard with two 512 MB Kingston DDRAM sticks, two PATA HDDs and nVidia GeForce 7300 GT. It's a 32-bit installation so that I can have nVidia graphics drivers even though the CPU is 64-bit.
Anyway, I'd love to hear some suggestions -- are there any known problems with that set of hardware? Any tips on system settings that could help tracking the problem down? I'm really out of ideas what to try with the hardware itself...