Re: PROBLEM: 2.2.13 sporadic crashes

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
12 Nov 1999 15:05:43 +0100


In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.20.9911121329460.15149-100000@jim.southcom.com.au>,
Jim Woodward <jim@jim.southcom.com.au> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Guy McArthur wrote:
>
>> My PII / RH5.2 / kernel 2.2.13 box is experiencing sporadic crashes of an
>> unknown origin.
>>
>I had a similar one the other day with 2.2.13 on my 486:
>
>Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_buffer+38/80]

Both sound suspiciously much like memory (RAM) problems.

Get the memory tester from

http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/

and let it run for a day or two to see if it can find any RAM errors

Mike.

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