On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:02:59AM -0500, Cary O'Brien wrote:
Wild idea: Do you ever get errors when you try to compile a big, big program, specifically the Linux kernel? It seems as if a large number of seemingly perfectly functioning PCs have memory errors that only show up under specific, not well known access patterns. Compiling a big program is a process that can exhibit these error prone patterns[1][2]. Perhaps Zope under load causes the same access patterns?
[1] This is not an urban legend. I have seen it. [2] Search for gcc and signal-11 or sigsegv. There are a couple of web pages out there about this.
I get them constantly when recompiling Mozilla, which is a daily task almost. And bad_slab_magic, and random segv's. I'll be running a good memory stress test soon, to see if I can pinpoint the offending Mem. bank. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@digicool.com | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ | The Open Source Web Application Server ---------------------------------------------