Re: systems hangs every few days
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chris Purves" <chris@northfolk.ca>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM
>> Subject: systems hangs every few days
>>
>> After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days
>> where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a
>> cold boot.
>>
> That sounds a lot like bad RAM. Run MEMTEST86 on it. I'm not sure if the debian install cds contain that, but Knoppix usually has that as a boot option. The full test could take more than a day. If you're lucky, it'll find an error in the first 10 minutes.
>
I ran memtest86 already for about 20 minutes without error. (I forgot to mention that in original post). I will run it overnight tonight to see if anything else pops up.
I am skeptical that it's bad RAM since the problem occurred after upgrading and I would have expected some kernel panic errors in the logs or something like that, although I suppose bad RAM can manifest itself in different ways.
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