On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 06:45, Toralf Lund wrote: > I think I'll try asking for help with this one once more: > > I still get a lot of segfaults on my Red Hat 9 machine. These always > occur when I put high load on the system, but apart from that, the > behaviour is completely arbitrary; any of the running processes may > crash, and more often than not, it's a different one from the one > actually loading the system. The system log doesn't tell me anything > about what happened. > > As always, I suspect a hardware problem, but I'm at my wit's end when it > comes to figuring out exactly what component is faulty. I'm very nearly > sure it's not the memory, though, as I still get the behaviour after > replacing the entire RAM. Two things come to mind Heat and power. Heat will cause a hard working CPU to do weird things and a weak or undersized power supply will do strange things as well. First ting I would do is monitor the cpu temp with lmsensors and see if there is a correlation between cpu temp and the failures. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
