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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.jaguNET.com!confucius.omniscient.com!emerys From: emerys@confucius.omniscient.com (Sean Emery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Strange new errors with 32mb upgrade Date: 14 Jul 1996 19:21:01 GMT Organization: Confucius say: I confused Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4sbhat$q7c@skydiver.jaguNET.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: confucius.jagunet.com Cc: X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello all, I have been getting several strange effects after adding some memory to my system. (total of 48mb now.) First thing I noticed is that vi (and it's derivitives nvi, etc.) and talk would core dump upon invocation. reboot fixed. Second thing, find command always produced a bus error. Reboot fixed. Third thing, a 'du' locked up my system and necessitated manual fsck'ing upon reboot. Fourth thing, X sometimes exits prematurely with a buserror or segfault. Not usually on its own, though, when I've done something (new window or something) to upset it. After this happens, X exits almost immediately with the same error when restarted (until reboot, of course.) Fifth thing, have rebooted my machine left the room to get a coke and returned to find it rebooting again... weird, huh? I bought 2 4x32mb simms (rated at 60ns although I use them at 70) and added them to the four 4MB sims that I already had. Is this the possible effects of defective RAM? or should I recompile the kernel with the option of more than 32 MB of memory or something like that. Thanks, Sean Emery emerys@confucius.omniscient.com