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 1E7gL2-0007OX-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:29:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NLRVdp021502; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:27:31 GMT Received: from lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NLNsro008541 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:23:55 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E661AB5A0 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net ([212.78.203.82]) by localhost (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22009-05 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 841BC10D68B for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=H8okeD+TbfMI5fTetRZatjqXn43C5kW6eq6TyvKLnxb/Ds9IwfeF1fDbUm7XyTWQycLxHQd3qcelE7zTOY6CuZzfht42y2xc8CCZZ4ctd+LsaGf8k4P0kZbImiSiZrqsVAAeHor+v5AM7AC0Hwqqgf8dd+Dl9QI7WOoi4WY8vx4=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <54093671718268@lycos-europe.com> X-Mailer: LycosMail X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 213.162.120.196 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 Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_Lycos_18268540936718_ID" Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:50 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: b7331fe0-a359-48cd-af67-b0277ac920cf X-Archives-Hash: a9c18504a419b1f8b299f6faac70c238 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --=_NextPart_Lycos_18268540936718_ID Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From:: Eugene Rosenzweig > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:03:01 +1000 > 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. I remember an application which would identify the bad memory cells and isolate them so that your machine could happily carry on using the rest of the memory - unfortunately just like yours my memory is not what it used to be . . . ;-) I've googled but can't find it. -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk --=_NextPart_Lycos_18268540936718_ID-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list