On 05/05/2010 07:37 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mleech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have >> heard of something like this. >> >> Yum seg faults when I ask it to do "things" when I have >4096M of >> physical memory installed. >> >> I'm running on a system with a Core 2 Quad, QX9770, with a x86_64 >> install of Fedora 12 from >> LIVE CD. >> >> If I drop physical memory down to <= 4096M, everything is happy. But >> for >= 4096M, not so happy. >> >> Other parts of the system seem to be working OK. I can bring up Firefox, >> muck about in it, etc. >> >> My windows come up without issue. >> >> But YUM can't seem to handle having too much physical memory (which just >> strikes me as profoundly weird). >> >> Any clues? >> > :) Sounds like a bug.. Is it reproducible? If so, maybe grabbing an > strace of the session could shed some light on it. I have a virtual > system that i can allocate 5G or so. If you post what you were trying > to do, perhaps I can replicate. > I'm thinking that I have some kind of strange hardware issue (like there's some magic flag on my motherboard to tell it to deal properly with >4096M of memory). I got a kernel abrt as well--"Bad page state in process swapper". I have a P5QL-PRO motherboard, and there seems to be some issues with installing more than 2 memory modules in it, if they're "double sided". Weird stuff. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
