On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:53, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:14:47 +0200
>
> Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm using gentoo since some months and I'm very happy of it, but it's
> > some day that I've several problems.
> >
> > - mozilla window frezes sometimes
> > - it's happened that kde freezes after lounching the console
> > - kde is taking along time to load at loging (more than before)
>
> Possibly hardware - bad memory, overheating?
I had similar problems half a year ago. The system worked fine until then,
and during a few days instabilities came up. XServer hanging/crashing a few
times per day, segfaults during compile, etc. I replaced my RAM and
everything went fine again.
Try to run memtest86 on your system, with all tests turned on. Even if it
doesn't find any error, you cannot be sure. There are a lot of cases, in
which RAM-errors cannot be detected by a memtest programm.
Try to utilize your computer with some cpu/memory intensive jobs. Just
recompile your kernel a few times(you don't need to install it), and use
something like
make dep; make clean; make -j<n> bzImage; make -j<n> modules
replace <n> with some proper value (=number of parallel gcc instances); It
should not begin to swap (in that case you would rather test the harddisk
than the RAM). It should NEVER fail (neither signal 11 or any other
reason). If it does, you can be pretty sure that its the ram.
Greetings,
Alex
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