Kernel 2.4.5 - what to do now ?

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

Hello,

Now pretty sure 2.2.10 does not have the same problem as 2.4.5

After about 18 hours of 2.2.10 doing the suggested make loop, and another
3 hours of -j 10, no problem evident. 

2.4.5 is another story. It does seem to depend on what value is given to
make -j.  At small -j, upto 4 it appears fine after limited tests. -j >5
has trouble, reporting illegal instruction.

What might be relevant is that it is predictable. At -j 6 it failed
several times at the same stage of compiling - in the same file.

Little swap space is used and there is about 2 meg of free mem still
available according to /proc/meminfo but that might not be right as I
can't be sure I'm seeing free mem at the instant it fails.

Stll have to try minimum 2.4.5 with removed hardware.

What can I do, what tools can assist ?

ken.