> -----Original Message----- > From: Ez-Aton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:43 PM > To: Shaul Karl; Uzi Refaeli > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: linux machine hangs > > > The fact it happens only during high CPU demand, I would > suggest checking that > the heatsink is connected ok. > Many boards have some sort of an alarm regarding over > temerature (check to > make sure it's enabled in the BIOS). If they don't, the CPU > just overheats,
Did so, still hangs with no alarms... > and freezes, and there's nothing you could do about it. > It might be system overheat too - You should check it out. > Try openning the > computer case, and touching with your hand (and see if you > can make it longer > then 10 seconds) to the CPU heatsink. If you can (and you did > it immedatley > after the computer froze), it's not overheat. > > Let's try to see it from a different point of view - What > didn't you change > betwin the two computers? The finger that push the power botton...;-) It's totaly new machine... What is the chance to get 2 fucked up hardwares? > > Ez. > > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:51, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Uzi Refaeli wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > here is something weird: > > > I had RH9 machine PIII 700 which used to just hang while > i was compiling > > > something every thing stop responding mouse, keyboard, no > movement on the > > > screen and no disk activity - nada... I had to power down > the machine and > > > restart it. > > > > I would try sysrq first. Might have prevented the need to > violently > > use the power switch and perhaps even to get some leads as > to where the > > problem is. You might want to look at > > kernel-source/Documentation/sysrq.txt. In addition, my experience is > > that these sort of problems requires a lot of patient (is > this the right > > spelling for willingness to wait more?): take a walk for a > hour or two. > > The machine might respond to previous entries during that > time. Or it > > might writes some useful information in the logs. In > addition, can you > > try making an ssh or serial connection to the machine? > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
