> On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
> > 8 boxes? I've been having some problems.
> >
> > I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I
> > can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
> > something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window),
> > sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens,
> > there is no saving it. Keyboard & mouse are completely
> > dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net.
> > This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past
> > 2 or 3 weeks.
> >
> > I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night,
> > and the other was during the day while I was at work. I
> > had left the box logged in, when I get back the login
> > screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a
> > UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted.
> >
> > There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the
> > logs wrt these incidents.
> >
> > I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem.
> > This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant.
> >
> > Any ideas? Frankly, If I was satisfied with this kind
> > of stability, I'd have stuck with windows :-)
> > Eric
>
> Yet, we have boxes running 8.0 since it was released, never rebooted, with no
> problem. AMDs and Intels with and without VIA chipsets.
Which is as it should be!
>What you are describing I have seen before only when
>I had a loose or failing CPU cooling fan.
That was one of my initial thoughts also. But my temps
from gkrellm are fine. Highest I've seen was about 50c
under heavy load on a hot day.
And most of these crashes have occured while the system
was idle or very lightly loaded. Some others have
described freezes during boot-up.
Also, this system was rock solid under heavy load with a
RedHat 6.2 variant for about 2 weeks. I didn't so much
as move the case between that & my Mandrake 8 install.
Additionaly, it will sometimes stay up for several days
at a time under various loads before it mysteriously dies.
Other times it locks up withing minutes of booting up.
So I'm pretty confident that it's not a hardware problem.
Nvidia has just released some new drivers. I'll try them
this weekend if I find some time.
Eric
>
> Civileme
>
