From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7aOc-0001qC-Ql for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:09:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NF7C3F022926; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:07:12 GMT Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NF252x016791 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:02:06 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ppp111-167.lns1.hba1.internode.on.net [150.101.111.167]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j7NF2tHt055128 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:32:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from eugene259@internode.on.net) Message-ID: <430B3AA5.4020404@internode.on.net> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:03:01 +1000 From: Eugene Rosenzweig User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often References: <8f7a9d5805082210274ab0ea25@mail.gmail.com> <430A1C93.2030204@asmallpond.org> <8f7a9d5805082212296dbb93ad@mail.gmail.com> <200508222151.50591.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <8f7a9d580508230603931d8d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8f7a9d580508230603931d8d8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6c747290-72ac-408d-aaa8-f052fb0feff8 X-Archives-Hash: 63aa102715e9c2848f4fe7e35d64d3ba 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 : > > >>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. >>-- >>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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list