[techtalk] signal 11 - help

Jeff Dike jdike at karaya.com
Thu May 4 00:08:30 EST 2000


> What does signal 11 mean?

Signal 11 is SIGSEGV.  It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway) 
memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in 
its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions.

The question you probably wanted answered more than that is what's going on.  
With random behavior like you're getting, and with random SIGSEGVs involved, 
my WAG would be bad memory.

I would find some kind of a memory tester and run it.

				Jeff







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