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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] memory problem? - repeat question...
Date: 30 Oct 1993 22:03:37 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:21:53 GMT


In article <27OCT93.20215369@tifrvax.tifr.res.in>
bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes:

   I have 16M of RAM on my 486 running NetBSD-0.9.
   I am however unable to run any but the smallest programs on it.
   If the total memory requirement goes above 500kb or so, i simply get a
   segmentation fault and core dump.

Sounds like you probably have bad memory.  There are numerous memory
test programs (for DOS) on the net; try one.