On Monday 14 Mar 2005 02:09 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Recently I started getting segfaults when compiling. My memory is relatively new so I tried reseating it; the problem disappeared.
Run a few passes of Memtest86 (<http://www.memtest86.com/>) to get some confidence that your memory is free from errors.
Hear hear! I recently bought two 512Mb memory sticks. I bought Kingston first of all, and one of them turned out to be faulty (but I didn't figure it out for a week because it was the second stick, and I didn't fill up half a gig very often!) I had Corsair as a replacement, and and soon as it arrived, I was paranoid enough to run memtest86 on it. That went back to the seller the same day, because I came back to find several hundred errors reported. The replacement I got for that, exactly the same Corsair, is fine. Either I was extremely unlucky, or memory's getting a lot less reliable these days. And when the usual symptom that anyone gets is that their Windows machine crashes, I wonder how many people are actually noticing? M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon