Vorbis - Dec 2000 - [a bit off-topic] oggenc crashes my K6-200 box

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?

--Mike

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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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Mike Coleman 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?
OS (version), which _exact_ cpu model number & stepping (available on
linux from /proc/cpuinfo, on MS Windows there are some tools to get
this info), what mainboard chipset, and what ide chipset and drives?
> Surely it must be a hardward fault, or perhaps a K6 problem (this processor
Seems like it.

(You can mail me privately).

Dagdag,

Segher

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What little encoding I did on my old K6-233 did not go well.  My machine did not
crash but all of the files were horrible.  Lots of drop outs.  I upgraded to a
K6/2-500 and had the same problem.  New sound card, same problem.  It ended up
being my CD-ROM drive.  I don't know the technical details, but basically I
could
rip not from it.  I was using CD-DA X-tractor to rip and encode.  Works fine
now.

Mike Coleman 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?
>
> --Mike
>
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Frank Klemm <pfk@fuchs.offl.uni-jena.de> writes:
> The K6-200/2.9V and especially the K6-233/3.2V and K6-233/3.3V are known
> to have thermal problems.
Yeah, this could be consistent with that.

--Mike


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