Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently added an extra gig of RAM to my machine bringing it up to
> just 2 Gb. I have tested the RAM with memtest86 and all seems well
It can sometimes take as much as 24 to 48 hours for memtest86(+) to show
up memory issues, and in some cases they just don't. Linux is,
surprisingly, actually harder on the memory subsystem at times...
> but Firefox (3 and 2) and Galeon crash on me after a while. Sometimes
> they work fine for an hour or two before quitting and at other times
> they crash as soon as they start to load a page. There is no trace of
> a fault that I can find in the logs and most other programs I have
> tried seem fine. Any ideas appreciated.
It sounds like a memory fault; have you checked the kernel message
output from dmesg? I presume so, in which case you have presumably
gotten "lucky" about where the faults hit, so nothing in-kernel has
detected the problem.
Try pulling out the memory module and see if it stays dubious, and if
not return it to the shop and ask for a substitute, or for them to test
it for faults.
Regards,
Daniel
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