On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 12:18:19AM -0600, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > I am having the reverse problem on my machine at work. It doesn't > want to use the swap partition at all unless I force it to. I > suppose that is a good thing, but what about: > > When I go into work I'll switch virt. consoles or type in an > xterm and *poof*, there goes the X server. Then I try to run X > again and it quits just as it's about to spawn the window manager. > Then after I reboot, X starts up fine. This has happened every day > since I've ftp-installed debian 1.3. > > On my previous dist I wrote a program in c that when run as root > from a console will allocate all of my available memory and swap > and then free it up. After doing this I was able to start X again. > But I lost the code when I moved from redhat -> debian. The reason > I had the code on redhat was for the same problem. But it occured > infrequently. > > Is there something I should upgrade? I have been planning to > upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.2 but I am still a newbie with dselect, etc. > I would compile it from source but the same problems happen during > a compile. I had to reboot several times to get the kde and kernel > sources to finish. >
This looks very similar to the problem I had before I changed my motherboard (or before I switched off 2nd level cache on my old motherboard). I.e., I suspect it is a hardware problem. How does the compilation stop, with signal 11? I am using a script which compiles the kernel 100 times to test my hardware. I had a probability of a signal 11 crash of gcc about every 3 or 4 times. When a crash happened, further invocations of gcc would usually crash immediately, so the remainder of the loop ran through very quickly. To get better statistics, I added a program like you describe after each compilation. This has the effect of forcing the (presumably damaged) gcc executable out of the memory buffer and a reload of a fresh copy from disk, so the loop could continue. BTW, can someone explain the difference between "buffers" and "cached" to me? -- Klaus Wacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51°29'9"N 7°25'9"E http://www.physik.uni-dortmund.de/~wacker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
