Hi, if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get the dreaded sig11. hth, Rolf
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) > > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. > > Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it > will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I > can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del > doesn't do anything. I have to hit the rest button. > > It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost > all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still > hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go > for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. > > Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to > avoid moving the whole system to a brand-new machine, find that the problem > has gone away, and conclude that there's just *something* bad about the old > server and that I need to chuck the whole thing. > > So, I'd like to isolate the problem, if I could. > > With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what > the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped > anyone to *under*clock the CPU? > > I'm anxious for any ideas.... > > - Joe > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
