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+ for three hours without finding any errors. I may try again for longer at a later time, but for now I'm going to rule out bad RAM.
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