Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:13:34 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Signal 7 and "Couldn't get a free page..." |
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> > I got this on three different machines. Everybody would say that it's a > > classical hardware problem (see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11), but too > > many machines are affected so I cannot believe it's a hardware problem. > > ok, if you can reproduce it easily, could you try the following debug > patch, it puts the reason for the SIGBUS (signal 7) into the syslog. [well > there are two more possible reasons for SIGBUS that this patch doesnt > handle, but they are _very_ unlikely in the case of GCC]
and i forgot to mention that if you get _no_ syslog output then it's one of those two stack segment exceptions, which are _very_ unlikely in typical Linux programs, which thus makes a hardware problem much more likely.
-- mingo
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