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Re: 1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools
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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