Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-07 Thread Chris Dillon
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > > :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David >Scheidt writes: > :: convince people that their memory is bad. The only reliable way to test > :: memory is with a hardware testor, or swapping known good memory in. > :

Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-07 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Scheidt wrote: >Ah, that tells you have a problem. It unfortunatly, doesn't distinguish >a bad memory module from a bad memory bus. One of my abits blew up a bit >ago with SIGSEGVs, I swapped memory in and around till I got to the point >that I realized that as long as

Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Warner Losh wrote: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David :Scheidt writes: :: convince people that their memory is bad. The only reliable way to test :: memory is with a hardware testor, or swapping known good memory in. : :Yes. while (1) do ; make world; done is a close sec

Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Scheidt writes: : convince people that their memory is bad. The only reliable way to test : memory is with a hardware testor, or swapping known good memory in. Yes. while (1) do ; make world; done is a close second to a hardware tester. I can't tell you th

Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Mike Muir wrote: :Stephen Hocking wrote: :> :> About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world. :> After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a :> 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in re

Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Muir
Stephen Hocking wrote: > > About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world. > After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a > 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in return > that actually works with a 100MHz bu

When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

2000-08-04 Thread Stephen Hocking
About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world. After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in return that actually works with a 100MHz bus. I think the trip from Austra