Re: memories
id be willing to bet its bad memory. i would take the old 32MB out and
keep the new 64MB in and try some tests..
http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=memory+test
I haven't had experience with those programs, but they may show some
results, i reccomend Microscope 7, but it is about $300 or
something.. also a good test is runnign multiple copies of seti@home (or
distributed.net although ive never tried d.net) if its still flakey then
id bet bad ram. make sure the ram sticks(if its 72pin) are the same
speed/type(EDO/FPM), check the speed in the bios, if its 60ns try putting
it at 70, play around with the timings ..also make sure you are not mixing
SDRAM with EDO, 95% of mainboards can't handle that properly(EDO is 5V and
SDRAM is typically 3.3V).
on my machines with 64MB i usually run 4x copies of seti, with 128MB i run
9-10 copies, let it go for 24-48 hours if its still alive its declared
stable.
nate
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu wrote:
mcclos >
mcclos >I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've
mcclos >been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel
mcclos >(custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS.
mcclos >
mcclos >Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on
mcclos >Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected
mcclos >in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long
mcclos >Netscape sessions and so on. But ....
mcclos >
mcclos >If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody
mcclos >logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the
mcclos >morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and
mcclos >when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in
mcclos >resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a
mcclos >kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem.
mcclos >
mcclos >The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP
mcclos >Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive.
mcclos >
mcclos >Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and
mcclos >hopefully solve it?
mcclos >
mcclos >Thanks in advance for any advice,
mcclos >
mcclos >Jim McCloskey
mcclos >
mcclos >
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