On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, dirkmitt <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You know, my hardware might be flaky. > > This machine is an ancient Pentium-3 at 600MHz, custom-built non-professionally. Now by itself, this should not stop it from recompiling tons of code. And it wouldn't explain the Bryce bug recurring under the exact conditions either. But on the other hand, when I rebuilt certain other large source trees in past months and years, it has happened to me that the machine just froze like that. Maybe the old hardware does have a glitch. Outside of hardware problems, even a huge malfunctioning make job shouldn't halt the system. > > Dirk > > If your hardware has problems all it takes is a single 1 or 0 to be wrong to send a system call to the wrong place in the OS or any other terribly horrific thing, and bring an entire system down. Mostly it'll cause apps to try and access the wrong memory and get a seg.fault but if it happens in the kernel theres little hope. -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
