Re: Signal 11

Alan Cox
2000-12-08T14:22:21Z

> Various processes have been getting random signals after heavy CPU usage.
> Playing an MPEG movie, kernel compile, or even just some small apps
> compiling sometimes. Just for the record, this isn't an OOM situation,
> I've watched this box with half its memory free or in buffers left
> unattended, and suddenly a compile will just die.

This is consistent with page cache corruption in memory. We definitely had
that in older 2.4test kernels. I saw this building stuff on Linux parisc
and it was because some page of gcc had randomly decided to become something
different. Since that was test6 I didnt figure it important 8)