Weird networking issue

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Tue Aug 4 07:10:35 UTC 2009


Glen Barber skrev:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Glen Barber<glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have 2:
>> 1.) Bad NIC
>> 2.) Bad CPU
>>
>> A while back, I found out I had a bad CPU after replacing everything
>> else on the machine -- I would still receive CRC mismatch errors with
>> portsnap(8).
>>
>> The NIC is more probable IMHO, but both should be suspect here.
>>
> 
> Now that I think about it... Do you do regular builds?  Can you try to
> 'buildworld' (assuming you can get csup to pull the source tree?
> 
> If CPU is the problem, you may experience random SIGSEGV errors when
> running the buildworld.  If it fails in different areas of the build,
> this is most likely (from my experience) the problem.

I've been doing buildworld -j4 for 8 hours without problems now.

I'll see if I can get someone onsite to try another cable and switch port.

--
Joel


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