On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Chad Mynhier wrote:

> 	I recently purchased 4 4M SIMMs and installed them into 
> my 486 running NetBSD-1.1.  After installing the memory, I got 
> segmentation faults from vi, man, less, getty, and login.  I've 
> read that this is indicative of bad memory, so I returned the 
> memory.  I received replacements and got the same behavior.
> Before I go through the replacement cycle again, I'd like to 
> make sure that there's nothing I can do to fix the problem.  I 
> borrowed a copy of Norton Utilities and checked the memory under 
> DOS, but nothing showed up.  I had a friend suggest that I increase

What kind of 486 do you have.
Norton Utilities does certainly not detect bad memory if it is not completely
broken.
I really do recommend using gcc and a kernel recompile.
If you get signal 11 from gcc I bet it is a hardware problem.

Yours,
-- martin

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