On Monday 09 June 2003 21:23, brett holcomb wrote: > Exactly the point - the most common causes of seg faults > are hardware (bad memory, mb, etc.) so that's where I look > first. I had one system that seg faulted like crazy and I > couldn't figure it out. Later it started working with no > problem. I finally but things together. When I first > started the system up it took forever (72+ hours to > compile what should have been done in 8 hours) and would > start making beeping noises. I found that neither of the > case fans had been hooked up so the dual Intels were > temperature limiting (at least that worked!). I connected > the fans and the system ran at normal speed - and I > haven't seen a segfault since even with heavy usage.
Also, it is strange to note, this is a Linux thing. If Windows fails people nod, agree and get a coffee while it reboots. If Linux fails, people start testing hardware to find out why.... -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible.
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