[vorbis] [a bit off-topic] oggenc crashes my K6-200 box

[Peter Jaques]

perhaps try downclocking your cpu in the bios (if your motherboard supports
that) to see if that helps. if your cpu is marginal at 200mhz, it might be
overheating. 150 or 166 might work better, as a troubleshooting step.

peter

On 20 Dec 00,  7:40AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> At 02:09 PM 12/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >I've noticed that oggenc reliably crashes my K6-200 box after a few
> minutes of
> >encoding.  Has anyone else experienced crashes like this?
> >
> >Surely it must be a hardward fault, or perhaps a K6 problem (this processor
> >has some errata).  Still, I'm surprised that nothing else I do with it seems
> >to hang it.
> >
> >Has anyone else seen anything like this?
> 
> I haven't heard any other reports of this sort of thing. Vorbis stresses
> the hardware (especially the FPU) very hard - probably more so than almost
> anything else. I suspect a hardware fault is likely. If you can have
> appropriate tools (debugger), and can find where exactly it's crashing,
> please do so.
> 
> Michael
> 
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