Segfault Suggestions?

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:51:29 -0500
Peter King disseminated the following:

> So: If it isn't the software and it isn't the memory, what should I
> look at next?
> 
> If the answer is "the CPU" -- how do I test that? I don't have a
> spare PII lying around...
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Another test you could try running is 'mprime'

ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz

extract  and run 'mprime -m' as a regular user,  choose 17 on the menu.

Puts a pretty heavy load on the CPU *and* the memory. If it can run overnight
without errors, it's a good indication that your processor and memory are 'OK'.

I'm not that familiar with Debian, but I also was getting some segfaults, and it
turned out that some kernel parameters were causing it. I had to disable APIC
and ACPI in lilo.conf.

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