On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +0000, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even fully > diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are: > 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and > annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message > instead, complaining about unknown variables or junk at end of line. In the > error message it's often apparent that something got corrupted by one > character. The file is usually a header and it isn't corrupted on disk. memory. > > 2) occasionally the system goes wild and thrashing, sucking up nearly all cpu. > Sometimes it causes the machine to lock up, but usually I can kill the > process that triggered the problem and everything settles down after 10 > seconds or so. If I restart the process, sometimes everything's okay, > sometimes it goes wild again. maybe memory. > > Is this a familiar problem? Is it the mobo or ram? Or is it a software issue > messing up virtual memory? My bios is updated, and I've tried several kernels > in the 2.6 line, including a couple of custom compiles. The problem exists > even in single-user mode, so it doesn't have anything to do with the > windowing system. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.21, etch amd-64, ext3 fs, > and sata disk (WD Cavalier, I think). definitely memory. A
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