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Re: Hardware problrems
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Zingerman Boris wrote:
> I was told that this is most likely some memory problems.
>
> * What else can cause all these troubles ?
A fucked up swap space maybe? but it is pretty likely this is a memory
problem.
> * Are there some test programs that can help me to find
> exactly what is really going wrong ?
> * Can I somehow intendently reproduce these problems before
> technical service guys ? ( because as I sad it happens only
> from time to time).
Compiling something big (like the kernel) is an excellent test because it
is such a memory hug. if you have a memory problem you will get something
like: "gcc internal error" somewhere during the make and chances are you
can reproduce it for the tech people.
Hope that helped.
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