1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools

[Ralph Hempel]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Jamie Cole wrote on 04 June 2008 12:56:
> 
>> Also we have an identical physical (e.g. non VMWare) machine running the
>> same tools and version of Cygwin which does not seg fault. Is it possible
>> there is a actually a bug in Cygwin which is causing these problems when
>> running on a virtual machine?   
> 
>   Uhhh, by definition, if the same piece of software doesn't do /exactly/
> the same thing on a virtualised machine as it does on a real machine, it is
> the *virtualisation* that is at fault, not the software running under it.

Not to point out the potentially obvious, but have you
run memtest on the machine that is failing?

I had a machine that worked great until the user loaded up a particular
app and then it would randomly segfault. The app was not the problem, it
was a bad stick of RAM in high address space...

Just a thought.

And I do run multiple cygwin instances in a VMWare environment and
it works great - for my application mix anyways.

Ralph

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