[CentOS] segfaults with 8 gig of ram

Thu Mar 22 12:04:30 UTC 2007
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

on the unstable machine..what mobo, cpu, nic, vid, hdd, etc etc etc.

tblader wrote:
> Hello All.
> I have five Centos 4.4 x86_64 (amd fx-62) boxes with
> 4 gig of Corsair dual channel ram running
> kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (smp).
> 
> The sixth box is the same except for video card and ram.
> It is using 8gig of GSkill dual channel ram and has
> a very cheap ATI video card in it.  This box will segfault
> on boot unless I use noapic acpi=off and nolapic.  Even
> with these boot params, the box is not 100% stable.  I have
> seen udev segfault right when booting and also when copying
> 15 meg files from /tmp to /usr will lock things up sometimes.
> Yum and Perl have gotten corrupted as well at different times.
> I have 5 fans in the box to vent heat and the BIOS reports
> the CPU running around 90 degrees Farenheit when rebooting.
> 
> I have run memtest86 (from Knoppix 5.1) all night long on the
> 8 gig of ram and it comes up OK.  In the past, we have found
> problematic Corsair ram this way.  This 8 gig seems to be
> OK as far as memtest thinks.
> 
> Today I will begin removing ram and testing to see what
> happens.  Does anyone have some ideas what might be the
> problem?  All the other five boxes with Corsair ram work
> fine.
> 
> Thanks
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