[Fedora-directory-users] help with memory corruption

[David Boreham]

>for the whole, was working on a paper, and have
>Eclipse
>open on some test codes (which has nothing to do with
>FDS). Eclipse started to hang, and then Gnome, and
>then
>nothing works, except the cursor.
>  
>
Well I doubt this is anything to do with FDS. It sounds like
the machine, or at least the window manager has some serious
problems.

>But before I reset, I forgot that I have fds running.
>  
>
Reset with the server running is absolutely ok. If it were the
sudden shutdown that had triggered the problem, it'd show up
in database recovery. The fact that you have no output in the
errors file indicates that we never got to recovery.

> No, this is the package I downloaded. It's in rpm
>
>format, I use alien to convert it to a deb package,
>and installed. 
>  
>
Ok, I guess it must be linked with the debug heap.
Strange, because that would seriously affect performance, I suspect.