I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even fully diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are: 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message instead, complaining about unknown variables or junk at end of line. In the error message it's often apparent that something got corrupted by one character. The file is usually a header and it isn't corrupted on disk.
2) occasionally the system goes wild and thrashing, sucking up nearly all cpu. Sometimes it causes the machine to lock up, but usually I can kill the process that triggered the problem and everything settles down after 10 seconds or so. If I restart the process, sometimes everything's okay, sometimes it goes wild again. Is this a familiar problem? Is it the mobo or ram? Or is it a software issue messing up virtual memory? My bios is updated, and I've tried several kernels in the 2.6 line, including a couple of custom compiles. The problem exists even in single-user mode, so it doesn't have anything to do with the windowing system. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.21, etch amd-64, ext3 fs, and sata disk (WD Cavalier, I think). Please help :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
