[ale] compiling kernel - disappearing segfaults

[John Wells]

Sheesh...more ram problems.

I have not found a utility that will accurately
identify RAM probs.  I use crucial tech. ram
exclusively and have found them great in the past. 
They'll take it back if I identify the RAM as a
problem, but it's a week to two week turnaround and I
don't want to do without the machine if possible.  Are
there any end-all be-all utilities out there that will
identify bad RAM once and for all?

Thanks for the help!

John

--- Joseph A Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net> wrote:
> John Wells wrote:
> > 
> > While compiling 2.4.9, I would get an occasional
> > segfault.  However, rerunning make would cause the
> > segfault to disappear and the compile would
> continue.
> > 
> > What's going on here?
> 
> Could easily be bad RAM. When the compiler starts
> hitting
> a damaged page hard, you get a segfault; restarting
> the build pretty much ensures that the bad page
> won't be used the same way for a while, so the
> build gets a little further along each time you
> run make.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Joe
> "I should like to close this book by sticking out
> any part of my neck
>  which is not yet exposed, and making a few
> predictions about how the
>  problem of quantum gravity will in the end be
> solved."
>  --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum
> Gravity"
> 
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