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SubjectRe: memory corruption under heavy load?
I have had very similar problems, and was told it was a hardware
problem. I also got strange header file errors, and many of the
sympotoms indicated a page problem. When I disabel both my internal
& external cache I no longer get this error.

I did however also see this problem in 1.3.58.

has anyone written an intensive test program which lets you spot
hardware problems? (i.e. Norton Diagnostics in 8086 mode just
doesnt cut it!)

--Michael

On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:

> Trying to stress-test some new hardware, I did "make -j" on the kernel
> sources. It runs for a while, starts swapping a lot, load average goes
> up to 30 or so, then cc1 gets fatal signal 11. There is still plenty
> of free swap space at this point (20MB total, about 10MB free).
>
> Before everyone will tell me: "it's a hardware problem, read the signal
> 11 FAQ, Linux has no bugs", read on...
>
> This never happens on the same machine under 1.2.13, 1.3.45 and 1.3.58
> (it runs happily until it runs out of swap space). I can reproduce it
> every time I try "make -j" on any large source package, under 1.3.80
> and 1.3.74. Normal compiles work fine under 1.3.80, just not "make -j"
> so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
>
> The symptom is usually signal 11, but sometimes also syntax errors in
> perfectly good include files. It looks like memory corruption caused
> by some changes between 1.3.58 and 1.3.74. I suspect the new swapping
> or page cache code. I can do a binary search, to determine exactly
> which patchlevel broke things - just tell me if this is necessary.
>
> Hardware: GigaByte GA-5486AL PCI motherboard with ALI1489 chipset (BTW,
> it seems to work fine with normal IDE driver, specifying ide0=ali14xx
> slows it down 3MB/s -> 1MB/s!), AMD 5x86-160 CPU, WD AC2850 hard drive
> (814MB EIDE), 8MB RAM (two 70ns 4MB PS/2 SIMMs).
>
> Feel free to ask if you need more information. Thanks in advance for
> fixing it, and keep up the good work!
>
> Regards,
>
> Marek
>
>


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