On 9/25/06, Patric Douhane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok that could be it, though I've never noticed that there could be something wrong with the memory before, but I ran Windows XP and perhaps you don't notice such problems then? Can I test my memory with Memtest86??
Not really. memtest86 can really only tell you if you have bad cells, which is actually extremely rare. This is because it works in a very linear fashion, and only between the CPU and memory. Compiling involves random access to different memory cells, rows, and even pages, as well as DMA transfers to/from the disk[s]. You can find a better script for testing memory here: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html You might have to make some edits to get it to run on a Gentoo box. -Richard -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
