> When I am compiling something large, like a new kernel or Apache, GCC/make
has
> a tendency to receive a signal 11 several times during the process,
forcing
> me to restart make. I did not observe this when running RedHat so I was
wondering
> if it could be the Mandrake optimisation of the kernel. (Happens on
original
> 7.0 kernel as well as 2.2.16-9mdk-secure.
>
> Or is this just the price for running i586 optimized code on a i486?
>
I always thought that Mandrake was not just i586 optimized code but i586
ONLY code. I think it's much safer to stick with RedHat for anything less
than a Pentium cpu.
