[TriLUG] Signal 11 with AMD K6

[Al Koscielny]

I have an AMD K6-III, 500MHz CPU on an ASUS P5A-B motherboard with 512 MB of 
RAM.  It's been running fine for over a year but recently started tossing 
SIGSEGV's (signal 11) randomly.  The signal 11's take out Netscape, KMail and 
Knode. /var/log/messages shows a number of kernel Oops, 0000 and 0002.  Fans 
are fine; CPU and motherboard temperatures are both reasonable. 
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ claims that some AMD K6 CPU's have a bug.

I ran the test suggested at http://www.multimania.com/poulot/k6bug.html, 
which repeatedly compiles the kernel and counts the failures.  After 1 
failure, the signals 11's stopped.  But I'm betting it'll only be a respite 
from the crashing applications and lockups.

Has anybody run into similar problems with AMD K6's?
TIA,
-- 
Al Koscielny