Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-19 Thread Ville Herva
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:35:19PM +0200, you [Ville Herva] claimed: > I quickly hacked up an user space memory tester, and sure enough it > reported an error after five If anyone is interested in the said hack (some already mailed me that they are), I made it available at http://v.iki.fi/~vherv

Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-19 Thread Ville Herva
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +0100, you [kees] claimed: > Hi, > > I tried memtest86 for 24 hours also and that didn't gave a clue. When bad > ram was really involved I'd expected to find things like: > failing fsck's, failing kernel compiles and such. But none of them > the system runs perf

Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-18 Thread kees
Hi, I tried memtest86 for 24 hours also and that didn't gave a clue. When bad ram was really involved I'd expected to find things like: failing fsck's, failing kernel compiles and such. But none of them the system runs perfect if it doesn't freeze(lockup). So yes, only the CPU's and the mobo are

Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-17 Thread Ville Herva
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:22:46PM -0500, you [Aaron Lunansky] claimed: > Sounds like the only thing you haven't swapped out of your machine is the > ram/cpu. > > It could very well be your ram (I don't suspect the cpu). If you can, try a > different stick of ram. Or try memtest86 (http://realit

Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-17 Thread John Jasen
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Aaron Lunansky wrote: > It could very well be your ram (I don't suspect the cpu). If you can, try a > different stick of ram. I've found a good exercise for exercising memory faults is to recompile the kernel with a -j16 flag; and in a second virtual console, do something li

Re: [OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-17 Thread Aaron Lunansky
OTECTED]> Sent: Sat Mar 17 11:29:35 2001 Subject: [OT] how to catch HW fault Hi, I'm getting mad because of random freezes of my system. Linux-2.2.19pre7 on MSI 694D dual PIII(677MHz) 128 MB, no OC. I tried to isolate the problem with replacing cards (S3 video, 3com 59X, ES1373 and AIC7xxx)

[OT] how to catch HW fault

2001-03-17 Thread kees
Hi, I'm getting mad because of random freezes of my system. Linux-2.2.19pre7 on MSI 694D dual PIII(677MHz) 128 MB, no OC. I tried to isolate the problem with replacing cards (S3 video, 3com 59X, ES1373 and AIC7xxx) didn't solve anything. Even in initlevel 1 with only a videocard the freeze happens