On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:33:34PM -0800, Jan Wynholds wrote: > I am just tearing out my hair over SIG11 (seg fault) problems with a one of my > linux boxes. After stumbling around in some FAQ's, and some postings in > various newsgroups, I have discovered that these problems have more to do with > the hardware than the os or software (caching, memory, speed settings, etc). I > have discovered that not only are these problems _extremely_ annoying, but > rather tough (for me) to solve, due to the sheer number of causes. [snip] > Currently, my problem box is a AMD K6-2 with a 256 MB of memory (PC100, one > stick of Viking, and one stick of kingston), a TYAN MOBO, and a Maxtor HD. I > suspect it's the memory, but I haven't nailed it down yet.
Have you tried Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com)? It's a very good memory tester for x86 machines. I've found more than one bad stick of memory using it. -- Samuel Merritt PGP key is at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~merritt/snmerritt.asc
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