Re: Memory fault during builds

["Gould, Michael" <mgould@orchestream.com>]

Thanks for all your help guys.

I should have mentioned that the failure happens at the same place every
time I try and build that piece of code.  Even if the machine has only just
been powered up.  Matthew Closson has remarked that he has exactly the same
problem in the same place as well.

So it seems to be a problem which is only stimulated by a compiler or one of
the build tools and only by this piece of code.  If Matthew were using a
similar machine to me I'd be thinking it was a processor bug.  
This doesn't seem too unlikely as I should think it's fairly common for
compilers to use processor features that most application code doesn't
touch. 

I'll try what you've suggested and let you know if you're interested.  If it
doesn't work I'll go back to kde 2.2.1.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jedi/Sector One [mailto:j@pureftpd.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2002 9:24
> To: Tobias Weingartner
> Cc: Gould, Michael; 'misc@openbsd.org'
> Subject: Re: Memory fault during builds
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:13:46PM -0700, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> > Wow, usually those type of things are indicative of memory problems,
> > and/or overclocking/heat problems.
> 
>   All tests completed succesfully (memtest86 seems to restart 
> all tests
> after completion. I've let it run about 4h) .
> 
>   It seems to only happen during compilation (it probably 
> means : during CPU
> or IO intensive operations) . Maybe the hardware is broken. I 
> didn't try any
> other OS on it. Other people have exactly the same hardware, 
> and they are
> running Linux with no trouble. So maybe this is an 
> OpenBSD-related bug,
> maybe this is a bogus mobo that Linux has quirks for, maybe 
> my host has bad
> fan, bad cable, etc.
> 
>   But since I did the previously listed changes, the problem 
> didn't happen
> any more. It was only 4 days ago, so I'm not sure whether 
> things are now
> 100% fixed. But I can now 'make build' with no trouble, while it never
> completed before.
> 
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