This was solved. It turned out to be bad RAM. memtest86 did NOT find the problem after thrashing the memory for over an hour.
Thanks to everyone that helped. Regards, Craig O'Shannessy P.S. Redhat 7.2 doesn't seem to run Linux stably on either uni or multi processor machines, and Redhat < 7.3 seems to have a couple of SMP bugs in the kernel and glibc. Redhat 7.3 seems to run fine. On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dan Kegel wrote: > Sure! I have seen many strange application aborts due to the problem this > patch claims to solve. You'd need to install > vanilla 2.4.18 kernel source to apply the patch, I think. > I did two days ago, and my machine is certainly no less > stable than before; it'll be a week or so before I'm sure > whether the patch really helps. > > - Dan > > Craig O'Shannessy wrote: > > I suppose this could be one of our problems, Could this "illegal > > instruction" problem listed here be the cause of our sig 11 errors? > > (there is no mention of -i "illegal" in any of the error files that the > > JVM saves on each crash). > > > > The "patch_final" link at the bottom of this page doesn't work, and I > > tried applying the contextual diffs to RH 7.3 (2.4.18-03), but most of > > them failed. > > > > Craig > > > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > > That reminds me: there is another important patch > > > for x86 SMP. It has not yet been blessed by Red Hat, though. > > > See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102208353523931&w=2 > > > - Dan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
