Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Weird 'tla changes' behaviour

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:45:50AM +0200, John A Meinel wrote:

> What version of tla? 1.3 had a couple of known memory corruption
> errors (de-allocating invalid memory). I *think* those got fixed as
> of 1.3.3, but I think they were still there in 1.3.1.

Just FYI:  1.3.3, says the Debian package.


On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:30:40PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:

> Also try running memtest86 on your system, and try stressing it by
> building a couple of linux kernel trees in parallel.  If these fail,
> it's a strong indication of hardware problems.

I'm running memtest86 right now, and indeed, there's a single address
up around the 240 meg region that hasn't passed a single test.  Looks
like that was probably the culprit.  Guess I'll see about finding the
kernel BadMem patch. :)

Thanks everyone.

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