Everything randomly generates .core files

[Eric Schuele]

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Benjamin
>>Walkenhorst
>>Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:17 AM
>>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; Eric Schuele
>>Subject: Re: Everything randomly generates .core files
>>
>>
>>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You probably have a bad CPU cache on your motherboard.  The solution is
>>>to use that machine for some Windows system and get a different PC.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>While I agree with your diagnosis, it's probably a hardware problem, I
>>don't think Windows
>>is going to run well on that machine.
> 
> 
> Perhaps - but since PC's these days are generally warrantied to run Windows,
> if that happened, back to the store for a return, eh?  Some machines are
> even sold with Windows preloaded, if you can believe it - I think a retailer
> would have a hard time claiming that a machine that was preloaded with
> Windows and that Windows couldn't run for more then 5 minutes on, wasn't a
> canidate for a warranty return!
> 
> Of course, we ARE assuming the OP used NEW hardware, not some crappy, grungy
> 5 year old discard PC, right?

It's running on a Dell Inspiron 5100.  I've had it less than a year. 
Ran windows fine.  Ran FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE fine.. 5.3-BETA7 as well. 
Just started a day or so ago, when I formatted and installed 
5.3-RELEASE.  I guess some partial failure could have coincided with the 
install.  I did not have the chance to run memtest yet....  but will 
today/tonight

Another thought... assuming its a hardware issue.  I would expect it to 
manifest itself under greater loads such as when building a port. As 
opposed to sitting idly while browsing the filesystem with xfe. One 
example is the OpenOffice port.... building that took forever... the 
entire time the CPU was pegged 95%-100%... but nothing hiccuped.  even 
had xfe up, and while browsing the web.

Anyways... thanks for the attention to my problem(s).  I'll post the 
memtest results asap.

> 
> Because if that was the case, then he got what he deserved, eh?
> 
> Ted
> 
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Regards,
Eric