On Monday 25 June 2007 05:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +0000, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even > > fully diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are: > > 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and > > annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message > > instead, complaining about unknown variables or junk at end of line. In > > the error message it's often apparent that something got corrupted by one > > character. The file is usually a header and it isn't corrupted on disk. > > memory. > > > 2) occasionally the system goes wild and thrashing, sucking up nearly all > > cpu. Sometimes it causes the machine to lock up, but usually I can kill > > the process that triggered the problem and everything settles down after > > 10 seconds or so. If I restart the process, sometimes everything's okay, > > sometimes it goes wild again. > > maybe memory. > > > Is this a familiar problem? Is it the mobo or ram? Or is it a software > > issue messing up virtual memory? My bios is updated, and I've tried > > several kernels in the 2.6 line, including a couple of custom compiles. > > The problem exists even in single-user mode, so it doesn't have anything > > to do with the windowing system. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.21, etch > > amd-64, ext3 fs, and sata disk (WD Cavalier, I think). > > definitely memory. > > A
Do you mean bad ram? Or is it a timing issue from bios that need twiddling? The machine's been flakey like this since I got it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
