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> From:: Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@××××××××××××.net> |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often |
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> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:03:01 +1000 |
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> Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: |
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> >After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I |
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> >have to buy new memory? |
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> >2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-claustha al.de>: |
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> >>On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: |
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> >>>Hi Richard, |
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> >>> First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition |
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> >>>with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any |
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> >>>way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during |
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> >>>start up. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> |
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> >>> |
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> >>please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. |
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> >>gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the |
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> >>bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! |
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> >> |
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> >>The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. |
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> >>-- |
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> >>gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have |
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> options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and |
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> see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned |
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> re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again. |
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> Eugene. |
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I remember an application which would identify the bad memory cells and isolate them so that your machine could happily carry on using the rest of the memory - unfortunately just like yours my memory is not what it used to be . . . ;-) |
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I've googled but can't find it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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