Re: NMI errors in 2.0.30??, High Availability-Linux
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:02:18 +0200 (MET DST)
yuri mironoff wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stephen Costaras wrote:
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> > Anyone else notice anything w/ Tyan boards & ECC interacting with the kernel?
> > (I'm assuming it's probably some kind of reporting problem as the posts that I've
> > seen are all tyan based. I'm running Tyan's Award BIOS v3.03.
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> Something like that. I've started getting SIGNAL 7 from GCC since
> upgrading to 2.0.30. This happens when I stress test the machine.
> (4 concurrent kernel builds with -j8) I'm not getting any NMIs - just
> SIGNAL 7. I've also gotten a few "Couldn't get a free page." Could that
> have anything to do with it?
"Couldn't get a free page" means that you are stressing your system to
the point that the kernel is running low on memory.
The signal 7 sounds to me that you have bad RAM in your system.
Roger.