thanks charles, but the box has an old s3 trio in it, it is intended to be a server - in the strict sense of serving files, it is hardly robust server class kit! - when i get a hang the console always shows a similar load of geek stuff and always mentions vm which i believe stands for virtual memory, hence my original question on lilo appends options;
if it hangs again i will put the swap on a different disk, do you or anyone else know of a way to stress this part of an installation, the physical memory appears to be ok, i ran all memtest tests for over 24 hours with no probs, in fact if anyone knows of a suite of tools to stress other subsystems of a linux system that don't require one to be an uber geek that could be a useful thing to know thanks again bascule On Monday 01 July 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:09:18 +0100 > > bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >�well that has certainly helped charles, > >�my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! > >�however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great > >�difficulty working out what the problem is, > >�oh well.. > > � > Have no idea if this will be of any use. > But I had 1 system with an ATI Xpert 2000 (rage128) which when running > 8.2 would periodically and randomly lock-up in X. -- "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah? "
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