Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often

[Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@internode.on.net>]

Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:

>After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I
>have to buy new memory?
>
>2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>:
>  
>
>>On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi Richard,
>>>
>>>    First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition
>>>with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any
>>>way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during
>>>start up.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others.
>>
>>gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the
>>bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was!
>>
>>The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting.
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>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>>    
>>
You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have 
options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and 
see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned 
re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again.

Eugene.

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