[ale] compiling kernel - disappearing segfaults

[Jeff Hubbs]

John -

Check Google for "memtest86".

- Jeff

John Wells wrote:

>Sheesh...more ram problems.
>
>I have not found a utility that will accurately
>identify RAM probs.  I use crucial tech. ram
>exclusively and have found them great in the past. 
>They'll take it back if I identify the RAM as a
>problem, but it's a week to two week turnaround and I
>don't want to do without the machine if possible.  Are
>there any end-all be-all utilities out there that will
>identify bad RAM once and for all?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>John
>
>--- Joseph A Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>John Wells wrote:
>>
>>>While compiling 2.4.9, I would get an occasional
>>>segfault.  However, rerunning make would cause the
>>>segfault to disappear and the compile would
>>>
>>continue.
>>
>>>What's going on here?
>>>
>>Could easily be bad RAM. When the compiler starts
>>hitting
>>a damaged page hard, you get a segfault; restarting
>>the build pretty much ensures that the bad page
>>won't be used the same way for a while, so the
>>build gets a little further along each time you
>>run make.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>-- Joe
>>"I should like to close this book by sticking out
>>any part of my neck
>> which is not yet exposed, and making a few
>>predictions about how the
>> problem of quantum gravity will in the end be
>>solved."
>> --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum
>>Gravity"
>>
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