Andrey Falko wrote:
On 11/20/08, *Nikos Chantziaras* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 (gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r3) yesterday.
Today I experienced random segfaults during an emerge (twice during
emerging mozilla-thunderbird; one time "as" (assembler) segfaulted,
on the second try python segfaulted at the end of the emerge).
Anyone noticing something similar? I'm reverting back to 2.6.26 for
now.
You do not see these segfaults on 2.6.26, right?
Correct.
When I had the symptoms
you described, it turned out that my RAM voltage needed to be raised in
the BIOS.
Hmm. My system *is* overclocked (I'm one of those "enthusiast" guys).
I'm running an E6600 that runs 2.4GHz stock at 3GHz with a good
aftermarket cooler (temps never go above 48C at full load). The CPU is
overclocked and *undervoltaged* (1.29V from its 1.35V stock). The RAM
is both underclocked (to get an FSB:DRAM ratio of 1:1) and
undervoltaged. The system has been confirmed stable though; 8 hours
Prime95 stress test with no errors, which is much more of a stress test
than any real application can pull off. It also passes memtest.
Do you run the proprietary nvidia-drivers? If you don't, run
any software that taints the kernel, I'd file a bug with upstream kernel
people: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
As it happens, upgrading to kernel 2.6.27 was not the only change; I
switched from xf86-video-radeonhd to the proprietary ATI Catalyst
drivers. Didn't think that this has anything to do with it though.
Can you recommend a Linux program that does a stress test like Prime95
on Windows?
