On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 02:36:12PM -0600, Frank Sergeant wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thalia L. Hooker) wrote > > I seem to have (nearly) the same problem on my AMD K90 system, > except the error I usually get is "segmentation fault". Again, it > happens at random places during a kernel compile. (I delete the > last .obj file and restart the compile with 'make zImage' and the > compile continues. Eventually, I make it all the way through with > a successful compile.) I also run into it perhaps 1 out of 3 times > when I do a large LaTeX compile, again at random places in the > compile. > > I am inclined to believe that the sig 11 and the segmentation > faults are indeed symptoms of bad hardware. Last May, I spent > several days swapping RAM SIMMs around, hoping to get a good > set that would cure the kernel compile symptom, but with no > luck. I have tentatively concluded that my problem is not > bad RAM but some other hardware problem. My next step, when > I have the strength to face it, is to pull all the non-essential > cards and try again. I also have a few additional SIMMs to > try, just in case all the others I tried were bad. If pulling > the cards doesn't solve it, I will see if I can jump the > motherboard to reduce the CPU clock speed and/or bus speed. > I already tried turning off the CPU and motherboard caches, > without that solving it.
You can also change the bios setings, adding more wait states or so. > Now, another interesting point: if indeed the problems > I've experienced on this machine are really _hardware_ > problems, and even though W95 cannot cope with those > failures gracefully, is it possible that W95 runs > reliably given flawless hardware? That is, is it possible > that W95 gets a worse reputation than it deserves due > to unsuspected bad hardware? Perhaps I will take to > recommending that customers purchase only Hewlett-Packward > PCs. Would that solve it? (At least, Hewlett-Packward > seems to have a good reputation for quality hardware.) Please notice, that a kernel compile stresses the machine to its end. Linux does use the power of your machine more than windoze. You can have a flawless working Win machine (well, what you call flawless windoze...:) and Linux does seg11 anyway, because windozw does not use the power of the machine. Linux does faster RAM access, so adding waitstates in the bios may help. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .