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Subject: Re: Signal 11
To: davej@suse.de
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:52:15 +0000 (GMT)
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> Various processes have been getting random signals after heavy CPU usage.
> Playing an MPEG movie, kernel compile, or even just some small apps
> compiling sometimes. Just for the record, this isn't an OOM situation,
> I've watched this box with half its memory free or in buffers left
> unattended, and suddenly a compile will just die.

This is consistent with page cache corruption in memory. We definitely had
that in older 2.4test kernels. I saw this building stuff on Linux parisc
and it was because some page of gcc had randomly decided to become something
different. Since that was test6 I didnt figure it important 8)
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