[techtalk] signal 11 - help

Jeff Dike jdike at karaya.com
Tue May 9 09:30:26 EST 2000


> We kept getting random signal 11's with an old 486, but the memory
> check didn't find anything. The cpu fan wasn't working, though, so
> could that also cause sigsev? Just interested... 

I think so.  If the cpu is overheading, that could cause the same sorts of 
things.  Although, I've mostly heard about system crashes from hot cpus, not 
random memory corruption.

				Jeff







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