cvs pserver sig11 on 4.8-R

[Scott Mitchell]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> I'd actually download your system vendor's memory diagnostic tool and run
> it in "No, really find the problem" mode, just to be on the safe side.  I
> had a machine that had a one bit memory error that I didn't discover for
> years -- occasionally I'd see an odd segfault, but it turned out the page
> of memory usually got allocated to a bit of the kernel that didn't
> notice/care.  Once in a while I'd recompile the kernel and the page would
> get used for something else, and turned up most frequently in Pine, and I
> would assume it was a Pine bug.  I'd have saved myself a lot of trouble if
> I'd run the memory check the first time, so that's usually the solution I
> push on people now :-). 

Thanks Robert - assuming I can find the relevant tool, I'll try that.  This
is a 3-year old Intel LG440GX+ system.  It's only 'new' in the sense that
it hasn't been used for anything for 2.5 of those 3 years...  There's
probably a CD around somewhere with some diagnostic tools for it.

I do have a GB of RAM sitting here to be distributed between this machine
and its twin.  I will try putting the whole lot in this machine and see if
that makes any difference to the behaviour.

Cheers,

	Scott