[ale] memory, compiling and seg faults

[John Wells]

I have a 900mhz running with a golden orb heat sink.  I have a temp probe
attached to the motherboard, and an external modified outdoor thermometer
wired to the outside of the slot A cartridge.  I also have a slot fan, a
card cooler, and two case fans.  In other words, I've created a small wind
tunnel in my box.  Both gauges indicate the cpu temp hovers around 39
degrees celcius during heavy processing and around 32 degrees celcius
idle...granted, the outdoor therm is a bit misleading at it's not attached
to the die itself.

Anyway, I'm thinking it is probably something else.  Panic temps for this
CPU is > 65 degrees celcius, which I'm well below.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

John

---------  Original message --------
From: James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
CC: Atlanta Linux  User Group (E-mail) <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] memory, compiling and seg faults
Date: 04-16-02 11:06

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