Re: RH7.2 running 2.4.9-21-SMP (dual Xeon's) yields "Illegal instructions"

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 13:19:36 EST


> Do you agree that this is likely to be a kernel problem? Is upgrading
> the kernel my best course of action?

Almost every other report I have ever seen that looked like that one has always
turned out to be hardware related. The randomness in paticular tends to be
a pointer to thinks like cache faults.

You do have ECC main memory which is good.

What other hardware is in the machine ?
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