On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pablo De Napoli wrote:
> Hi friends of Linux!
>
> I'm having a lot of segmentation faults. I suspect that something is wrong
> with the virtual memory management.
>
> I've deduced this since it doesn't seem to be asociated with any
> particular task. It happens any time that I make something that needs a
> lot of resources (like running X11 and open several programs like
> Netscape, lyx ,...; or compiling a big program).
>
> I got different kinds of messages:
>
> Kernel Panic: Free List corrupted
>
> cc got signal 11 : while compiling a big program like for example perl or
> lyx (almost every time)
>
> Oops !
This smells like memory corruption. I suspect bad memory.
> One thing that I don't understand is that I have the same problem with
> different versions of the kernel that I know to work (I have this problem
> at work , but not at home : in each case I'm using a custom compiled
> kernel).
>
> It may happend that this problem could be caused not but the kernel itself
> but by some daemond ?.
>
> I'm running an Celeron (intel) pentium with 32M of RAM and 24M of swap
> space.
Could be that the machine is out of memory.. Check you logs. If the logs
don't show anything, swap the dimm.
> Pablo De Napoli
Igmar
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