[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:19:40 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. CPU load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 18:12:00 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP The meaning of all this is that if memtest can't find any errors after a full run (which can take an hour), the chances of getting an error that is really related to RAM under CPU stress are very slim. Which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 19:26:47 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't