Re: Random sig[segv|fpe] on 164LX with 256MB RAM

[Andrew Hobgood <chaos strange net>]

> Below is Dave's magical all encompassing RAM tester, fiddle with the size
> at the top so it almost fills RAM and then let it rip. I'd be interested
> to see the errors you encounter; I almost always saw extra bits set
> somewhere in the top bits of the word.

schizo:~# gcc -o memtest memtest.c
schizo:~# ./memtest
Filling with seed of s=0x420
memtest: memory violation at pc=120000900 rp=1200008c8 (bad address = 00000000)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It does that regardless of the memory size I give it.  This is with 2.0.35,
because I can't get any of the 2.1.x kernels to even compile on this box.

Heh... this is fun. =)

That bad address line seems to be present whenever something dies on me from
a segfault.  Any ideas?

> Yes - I found Pagan sacrifices of Intel users to be very pleasent; if not
> effective.

Herm... my roommate is an Intel user... <smirk>

/Andrew