Re: 2.6.0-test8 and HIGMEM = segfaults and panics?

[Zan Lynx]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:53, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I'm running a dual-athalon system.  When I compiled the 2.6.0-test8 kernel I
> enabled HIGHMEM for 4 Gigs as I'm at 1.5G now and planning on purchasing
> an additional 512Meg DIMM next weekend (yeah, should have with the
> 1.5Gig).
> 
> At any rate the box comes up just fine and runs for a while but once the
> memory is in use for a few hours and seems to exceed 220+ Megs about any
> command I execute will Segfault and the kernel has panic'd twice
> (couldn't read the whole oops).

I run a dual athlon system with 2 GB, and it has never done anything
like that.

Have you run memtest86 on your system to verify it isn't a physical
memory problem?

Are you using registered RAM chips?  I seem to remember from my
motherboard documentation that registered is required to use more than 2
memory slots.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx>

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