Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?
Hi,
if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very
memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get
the dreaded sig11.
hth, Rolf
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :)
>
> Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard
> system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times,
> it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer.
>
> Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it
> will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I
> can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del
> doesn't do anything. I have to hit the rest button.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost
> all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still
> hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go
> for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so.
>
> Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to
> avoid moving the whole system to a brand-new machine, find that the problem
> has gone away, and conclude that there's just *something* bad about the old
> server and that I need to chuck the whole thing.
>
> So, I'd like to isolate the problem, if I could.
>
> With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what
> the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped
> anyone to *under*clock the CPU?
>
> I'm anxious for any ideas....
>
> - Joe
>
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