Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> writes: > However, it was an overheating issue. I did blow off some dust in the > fan and put the ThinkPad on a laptop stand and it did compile > successfully through 8 hours.
>From reading lore over the years, I would expect that memory would just write or read incorrectly. That doesn't lead to the kernel noticing anything and a line in dmesg. Just programs getting wrong bits and blowing up. Maybe you can change your Thinkpad's hardware to use ECC RAM instead :-) But seriously, higher-end server motherboards take ECC RAM which helps with this, and provides diagnostics. Finally, 2 GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap are small for today's big software, and I'm surprised things are working as well as you report. In hindsight, that should have been in your initial request. I'm not saying a 2 GB is unusable -- just that building a lot of software takes a lot of RAM.
