When the system is working well type free and write down how much
ram is used and available. If any Swap is used write that down too. Next
time it gives trouble type free and write it all down again. This should
show you where the problem is.
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Anthony Good wrote:
> Greetings !
>
> I know this is probably a hardware issue, but I'm a newbie and it does
> relate to Linux :-)
>
> Recently I purchased more RAM for my 133 Mhz Pentium homebuilt system
> running RedHat 5.1 and KDE. Now, occasionally the system will start
> behaving strangely, I'll start getting a "segmentation fault" error when
> trying to load apps such as Netscape or Emacs or even running commands such
> as ls or df. If I reboot the machine, the problem goes away.
>
> Are there any diagnostics that I can run in Linux to stress test the memory
> or somehow figure out what's happening when this segmentation fault occurs ?
> The memory has never failed during the CMOS boot-up test.
>
> Thanks
>
> Goody
>
>
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
