The latest kernel update seems to have fixed the panics and GPFs I was experiencing.
I was experiencing nearly predictable crashes whenever RAM was filled with cached disk blocks. At that point, it seemed that anything that addressed the cache would cause a crash: use a program that needed RAM or compile something. Even 'sync' would cause a crash. I think I even reinstalled the linux-image pkg, thinking something might've been corrupted. I'm running Wheezy 64-bit. I had 8GiB of GSkill 9-9-9-24 RAM in my quad PhenomII, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P. Because a memtest showed there might be a bad bit somewhere, I bought new RAM: 16GiB GSkill 7-7-7-21. It made no difference. As soon as there was pressure on RAM, the system would crash. Sometimes with triple faults. I was really beginning to doubt the CPU (memory controller) and other hardware. Then the latest kernel update was released (3.2.51, I believe). I installed it and the problems ceased. I can build my firewall without crashes now; the complete build fills 16GiB RAM (cached disk blocks). I perused the kernel changelogs from .46 to .51; nothing stood out to my apprentice's eyes. So it comes down to two questions. Was there a kernel change that would account for this improvement in stability? Or is it more likely that some kernel/module was corrupted on disk and the new kernel erased that error, transparently fixing the 'problem'? Thanks, N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201310281709.53389.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
