Re: Server crashing (revisited)

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

Hopefully those people who replied to this issue earlier can respond.

If you recall I had a problem with a server crashing (read below). I  
started doing a memtest on the server itself while operating. It has  
been running now 3 days. The server has not once crashed that whole  
time. But this morning I stopped the memtest. Zero errors were  
reported out of some 300+ tests. Then within minutes, it crashed. Now  
isn't that peculiar?

Any explanation out there?

Curtis


On 19 juil. 05, at 13:54, Curtis Vaughan wrote:

> On 19 juil. 05, at 12:35, TreeBoy wrote:
>
>
> > On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 19:30, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > The only time this happened to me was when I had broken RAM.
> > > >
> > > > Can you afford to run memtest on the machine for a couple of days
> > > > in order to
> > > > rule it out.
> > > >
> > > > I swapped the RAM into another machine and it eventually failed
> > > > memtest on
> > > > the third day of testing - but I haven't had another failure since.
> > > > (Fingers
> > > > crossed.)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Ok I started running memtest, but I'm not sure exactly how to use  
> > > it.
> > > First, I tried memtest 100m --log, but that pretty much stopped the
> > > computer from doing anything else. So, I stopped that test and  
> > > put it
> > > to 50m. But am I doing this right? Oh, by the way I think I have
> > > somewhere around 120 Mb RAM
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > This is why I asked if you could "afford to" do the test.
> >
> > I was lucky because I had a spare machine and spare RAM: I swapped  
> > the RAM and
> > put the "dodgy" RAM into the spare machine. I then used a Knoppix  
> > boot CD and
> > booted into a memtest on the spare machine.
> >
> > This meant that while the test was happening, I was not otherwise  
> > using the
> > machine.
> >
> > Sorry.
>
> Yeh, I think I can do that. But if I just leave it testing 50m  
> would it show a problem if one exists? Or do I need to run memtest  
> at full 120m? And finally am I issuing the command right? Or is  
> there some other parameter(s) I should use?
>
>
> Curtis
>
> PS. The conversation about types of RAM is not bothering me so if  
> it's constructive for others by all means continue.
>
>
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