Re: strange gcc crashes...

Nicholas Knight (tegeran@home.com)
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 05:56:06 -0700


On Monday 13 August 2001 04:55 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> at Aug 11, 01 06:51:15 PM +0000 Mark Hahn wrote:
> >> so it seems to me like kernel problem...
> >
> >why is that? I've never seen a sig11 from production >code
> >that wasn't caused by flakey ram. in fact, your >descriptions
> >are a perfect example of similar hardware problems.
>
> and some other people told me about cpu overheating...
>
> but 55 minutes long memtest run showed no problems et al
> with cpu (P166-nonMMX-oc`ed to 180) staying warm, not by any means hot
> on mobo Zida 5DVX.
>
> maybe 55 min is not enough for proper mem testing?

Synthetic tests are never as good as a real good gcc run, I'd *never*
trust them over the indications given by attempting to compile the kernel
or something big like XFree86.
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