> Are you sure you don't have a temperature problem. It's hard (impossible) to prove a negative like this, but it's a good point. It has been a bit warmer the last couple of days here in California. I run with both my CPU and power supply fans turned down as slow as they can go, to reduce noise when doing audio recording. Certainly heat could be part of the problem.
However, this machine made it through the summer in the same configuration and didn't have trouble. As Robert Crawford suggested in another email it could be dust build up on the air slots which creates extra heat. Not running setiathome would certainly reduce processor loading, but it's not an option. I didn't get into the top .1% of all the SetiAtHome users by not running the program! ;-) Well, not quite top 0.1% anymore. I'm down to having done more than 99.899% of the other users, but over 20,000 work units completed in 4 1/2 years. All that done on regular PCs. About 1/3 of it Linux. 2/3 Windows. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&c md=user_stats_new Thanks, Mark > I've seen the > same when my > system overheated. (was running setiathome). setiathome and other > simillar > programs use the idle time of your cpu, so your cpu are running > at 100 % all > the time. It might be that there are a minute buildup of heat, > and that after > 6 months the heat has risen to a level where the hung appear. > When you get hangs like this it's often a hardware problem. If > you take a look > at the mail list archive, hangs like this has been reported before. > -- > Sigurd Stordal > President of GOGS > Experimental Petrologist > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
