I have two thoughts:
1. defective memory?
2. Did you enlarge your swap space accordingly?
I'm kind of grasping at straws here, but there are my thoughts.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, cor van dijk wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I upgraded my triple boot (Redhat6.0/Debian2.1/Windows95) Pentium from
> 48MB to 128MB. Each OS on its own drive. Redhat immediately found the
> 128MB, so did Windows. For Debian I inserted
> append="mem=128M"
> in its lilo.conf stanza; then Debian also found the 128MB. All systems
> boot fine and report the proper RAM size.
> My problems start when I run things like "cdrecord" which appears to
> lock certain areas of memory (with mlockall?) or "cdparanoia" or
> "cdrdao". After a few minutes running, these programs cause
> segmentation faults and complain about their buffers only partially
> filled. Both Debian and Redhat have this problem. With 48 MB RAM this
> never happened.
>
> If I force a limit of 64MB (with a line in lilo.conf) then the problem
> goes away. I can find nothing in the FAQ's or HOWTO's about problems
> like this. Can somebody please put me on a track to resolving this
> problem? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Cor van Dijk.
>
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