on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:53:10 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) > > wrote: > > > > - CPU -- a continuous kernel-build loop is a pretty good test. > > > > You're looking for SIG-11 errors. > > > > > > I'll give that a try, how long would you suggest it run before > > > considering this test to have been passed? > > > > Run through it one or more times. In some cases there are thermal > > effects. Depending on processor speed, you may want to set a continuous > > loop and run the process for an hour or so. > > Created two copies of the 2.4.16 kernel source and have currently been > running two endless compiling loops in SSH sessions to the system. The > loops have been running for 4+ hours now, planning to let them run over > night. Sounds like a negative. > > You might try mounting your drives 'sync' (synchronous mode), and > > launching Mozilla under strace, logging stderr. This may be able to > > capture the final system calls of the program. > > I'll give this a run tomorrow. Hopefully I can readily get Mozilla to > drop the system. You've largely eliminated memory and CPU. Another possible HW problem might be a disk corruption in your swap partition. I suggest this just because I now that Mozilla tends to grow, and stress swap. Though I would tend toward a driver issue. Not sure of a good swap tester, anyone have any suggestions? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Integrity, we've heard of it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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