id be willing to bet its bad memory. i would take the old 32MB out and keep the new 64MB in and try some tests..
http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=memory+test I haven't had experience with those programs, but they may show some results, i reccomend Microscope 7, but it is about $300 or something.. also a good test is runnign multiple copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or distributed.net although ive never tried d.net) if its still flakey then id bet bad ram. make sure the ram sticks(if its 72pin) are the same speed/type(EDO/FPM), check the speed in the bios, if its 60ns try putting it at 70, play around with the timings ..also make sure you are not mixing SDRAM with EDO, 95% of mainboards can't handle that properly(EDO is 5V and SDRAM is typically 3.3V). on my machines with 64MB i usually run 4x copies of seti, with 128MB i run 9-10 copies, let it go for 24-48 hours if its still alive its declared stable. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mcclos > mcclos >I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've mcclos >been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel mcclos >(custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. mcclos > mcclos >Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on mcclos >Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected mcclos >in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long mcclos >Netscape sessions and so on. But .... mcclos > mcclos >If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody mcclos >logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the mcclos >morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and mcclos >when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in mcclos >resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a mcclos >kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. mcclos > mcclos >The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP mcclos >Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. mcclos > mcclos >Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and mcclos >hopefully solve it? mcclos > mcclos >Thanks in advance for any advice, mcclos > mcclos >Jim McCloskey mcclos > mcclos > mcclos >-- mcclos >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mcclos > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:07am up 143 days, 21:06, 2 users, load average: 1.81, 1.89, 1.72
