On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Alan, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Gentoo, > > > > > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > > > > > > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging > > > the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. > > > > > > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I > > > know there's a binary for this). > > > > everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, > > especially RAM closely followed by PSU. > > Yes, you're right. :-( > > When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of > failures in b11 of 32 bit words. > > I'll try unplugging and replugging these. > > Thanks for the tip. > > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
you can try upping the voltage of the ram by 0.05V. I had a stick that threw errors unless I gave it a bit more. After that the system was stable and none of the memtesting apps found any errors.
