On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:06 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
>
> I had a similar experience once with a Computer, Via-Chipset.
> Averred that the Mainboard had a problem. The issue actually was a
> combination of Network/Sound/Memory & High PCI Usage. Means - that I
> always had a segfault when these 4 things where producing together a
> high-load. In the End - removing the soundcard (Soundblaster Live 1024
> Player) made it more playable.
>
> I was able to reproduce the Segfault/System lockups sometimes when:
> Having several xmms-insances running at the same time (stress the
> soundcard a bit), and perform a kernel-compile:
> make -j 100 bzImage
>
> Make sure you have enough Ram for a -j 100 ;)
> 90% of the time - I had a crash or a problem ...
>
> Maybe you want to check that out ... I find the kernel-compile with the
> option -j 100 better than any memory Test stuff around there ;) cause
> it's not only the memory that needs tested, but the environment it runs in.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joerg
Hi Joerg. Thanks for the reply. I'll save this e-mail and play around with
that option when I get a bit more time (work ya know!). :-)
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