Re: new machine froze, how to debug
This is a QDI Advance 5 with Intel PIII/500 and 1/8 gig ram.
It's got some kind of hard drive in it too, and a network card
and stuff. -chris
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Krzys Majewski wrote:
> >
> > Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook
> > in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine
> > frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW.
> > Where should I start looking?
> > -chris
>
> you can start specifying all the hardware, i found that seti@home would
> lock my BP6 *EVERY SINGLE TIME* it was like clockwork. so if you have a
> BP6 ..replace it. or take the 2nd cpu out. see
> http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/bp6-linux.html for more info.
>
> you can also get a program called cpuburn to burn in the cpu, cpuburn
> also comes with a chipset tester(only supports a few chipsets). there
> are several memory checkers available(see freshmeat)
>
> if you don't have a BP6, run stress tests on it, seti@home is a great
> program to stress the cpu/cache/memory/IDE controllers/hdds. for a
> 128MB machine 7 copies of seti@home running at the same time for 2-3
> days is a good test i've found. for 256MB maybe increase it to 12. etc
> etc. (im sure that rc5 is just as good as seti but ive never tried it
> myself)
>
> run this in console mode, make sure there is no X at all running. if it
> passes the test, then run (from inside X) x11perf -all (cant believe i
> remembered that command! last week i couldnt..) that will run a series
> of graphics tests, it can take hours to complete, if the machine does
> not lock up, run it again, or maybe try loading it a 2nd time and run 2
> copies(not sure if that would work) if that all passes .....then it may
> be safe to say the system is pretty stable and just xseti is buggy(which
> last i saw their readme strongly iterates it is beta/alpha software)
>
> nate
>
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