[ale] memory, compiling and seg faults

[James P. Kinney III]

Start looking at the cpu fan and cooling setup. Large compiles, and
wxPython certainly qualifies, push the cpu to full use. If the cpu is on
the verge of overheating, things act flaky. It can also be a heat
problem with the memory as well. You may need a supplemental fan to move
more air around.

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 02:40, John Wells wrote:
> For awhile now, anytime I compile from source I get intermittent seg faults.
>  Rerunning make a few times usually causes the seg fault to disappear and 
> compiling continues.
> 
> Last night when compiling wxPython, I started getting seg faults so often
> that I had to script make to rerun each time it occured a non-zero return
> value.  Judging from my log file, I'd say the number of seg faults before
> the (eventual) successful compile reached 100.
> 
> I know this has to be caused by something with my RAM, but I've run
> memtest86 and other test utilities and they all report that everything is
> fine.  Could it be something else?  Are these types of utilities accurate or
> more of a good indication.
> 
> Also, this would mark the second time I've had to replace a SIMM because of
> this problem.  Could it be a problem with one of the motherboard slots
> rather than one of the modules?
> 
> As always, thanks for the help.
> 
> John
> 
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