on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:32:36PM +0100, Johannes Zellner (johannes@zellner.org) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:46:28PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > Sig11's are often diagnostic of memory errors. Look at > > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It could be a real problem > > in capt, but if it's seemingly random and/or unreproducable, look into the > > possibility that the error is in hardware. If it's not random and it's > > reproducable, file a bug. > > this is the problem: it's random. I don't believe it's a hardware > problem: This computer runs stable for 1+1/2 years now with heavy > load of numerical calculations. There was never a SEGV which could > not be explained by a program error. Numerically intensive operations may not tax the system in the same way that capt does. Debian's package management system is memory intensive -- the (extensive) package list is loaded into memory. You might not be twiddling these addresses in the normal course of events. I'd suggest running a memory tester: $ apt-get install sysutils $ man memtest Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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