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Subject: Re: RH7.2 running 2.4.9-21-SMP (dual Xeon's) yields "Illegal instructions"
To: tepperly@llnl.gov (Tom Epperly)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:19:36 +0000 (GMT)
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> 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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