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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Need help understanding core dumps

I forced another crash by starting Bitwig - here's the log for that. Definately a cheeky segfault in there.

One thing I don't get - and, perhaps, this is just showing my ignorance - is why, if this is a RAM issue, this happens so consistently. Surely RAM is, you know, accessed randomly?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,964

Re: Need help understanding core dumps

This could be unrelated, the 495.46 nvidia driver has multiple reports for causing aborts.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73031

Otherwise random access becomes less random when you access more (ie. more RAM demand/pressure makes it more likely to hit the bad module)

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Need help understanding core dumps

OK - that's worth knowing about the nvidia bug.

I have tons of ram in this machine (32Gb) I don't believe I've ever even touched most of it.

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Need help understanding core dumps

Just in case you're interested: I may be close to tracking down the problem. Currently experimenting with BW3 since it seems to be 4.1.x that causes the Xorg problems.
I tried not including some plugins on the system install and it seems like that fixes the problem. I'm now trying to re-introduce them slowly to see if I can identify the cause of the problem.