Re: Strange system behavior

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette
> <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> > (Resending without most of the original attachments, since that
> > seems to have exceeded a message-size limit!)
> >
> >
> > I have a new machine in my farm, and it is exhibiting some very
> > strange behavior.
> >
> > Essentially, this machine does nothing more than 'build.sh release"
> > several times daily for port-amd64.  (See [1] for test results!)
> >
> > About half of the time, the build fails due to some host utility
> > receiving a "segmentation fault", and almost always it fails on the
> > exact same command and at the exact same place in the build!  But
> > re-running the failed command interactively succeeds without any
> > problem.
>
> I'm betting you have bad memory. Try running memtest86 for a couple
> of days on the box and see what happens.

Memory was my first suspicion.  I started with 2x2GB of Kingston.  Then 
I added 2x2GB of Corsair memory for a total of 8GB.  The problem stayed, 
so I removed the original Kingston memory leaving only the 2x2G Corsair. 
Doesn't seem to make any difference - all three result in the same 
failure symptom.



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