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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!ncar!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] memory problem? - repeat question... Date: 30 Oct 1993 22:03:37 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 13 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Oct30180337@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <27OCT93.20215369@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:21:53 GMT In article <27OCT93.20215369@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes: I have 16M of RAM on my 486 running NetBSD-0.9. I am however unable to run any but the smallest programs on it. If the total memory requirement goes above 500kb or so, i simply get a segmentation fault and core dump. Sounds like you probably have bad memory. There are numerous memory test programs (for DOS) on the net; try one.