5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems)

[Mark Kirkwood]

Rick Updegrove wrote:
> 
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>  607 root     131    0   136K    36K RUN     51:14 98.97% 98.97% burnK7
> 
> *"end paste from top process"
> 
> As you can see it went on for 51 minutes and my machine did not lock up
> and the heat alarm did not go off.  Please note that I ran KDE and
> portupgrade during this test with no problems at all.  Also note there is a
> 160 GIG drive in here that was undergoing a fsck -B which really slows 
> down the system a lot.
> 
> Thanks again for the reply, but I do not suspect hardware per se.  The
> reason I believe this is as I mentioned  this machine runs FreeBSD
> 4.11-STABLE and/or Win2K (all service packs) just fine.  On windoze I
> just beat half-life 2 without ever crashing it.
> 
>
98.87% for 51 minutes *should* have triggered any heat problems, so 
looks like the HW is not the problem (worth ruling out anyway).

best wishes

Mark