On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:12 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after > > > > about 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does > > > > anyone have any idea of how else I can track this down? > > > > > > In a word, memtest86. > > > > Memtest86 passes without error or crash, for that matter. But, > > good point. I tried that yesterday. Hmmm. it's been up 4 1/2 hrs > > now. That's the best so far today. > > Ernie, > Hi. Sorry for your troubles. I'm having very much the same > problems. I haven't solved them, but I'm making headway. > > In my case the situation seems very similar. The machine's been > up for maybe 8 months and has been very stable. I've run setiathome > on this box since I built it. I've never had problems until the > last few weeks. Starting 3-4 weeks ago the machine has been > crashing a lot. It's hung with no keyboard or mouse. I cannot ssh > into it. Only a reset gets it going again. memtest86 runs for a day > with no errors found. > > In my case, since the machine fails more when setiathome is > running, folks here suggested that heat was the culprit. I thought > that was a reasonable idea, so I set up lmsensors and took some > data. My CPU fan is variable speed, and I was setting it very slow. > Here's the temp data I got: > > Fan Idle Seti > Speed Machine Running > (RPM) (Deg. C) (Deg. C) > > 1940 66.4 77 > 2150 64.4 74 > 2460 61 70.4 > 2960 59 65 > 4272 55.4 59.4 > > I took this data just before I left for Thanksgiving, so I > haven't really finished, but I ran setiathome for a while (2 hours) > with the 4272RPM setting and it didn't crash, but that's no proof. > > At this point I'm going to run for a while without using > setiathome and a low fan setting and see if it crashes. If it > doesn't, then it's either heat by itself, or possibly heat combined > with somethign like setiathome with my current make.conf options, > triggers some problem. > > I'd be interested in whether you've tried to get some data like > this? As I say, this machine was stable all through the summer > running setiathome when the house was warmer. It didn't crash. Now > it's winter, the house is cooler, but the machine is crashing. > > - Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I don't have a variable speed fan on this box but I don't see temp as a problem as crashes occurr with the CPU 98% idle. CPU burn pushes the CPU to 52C after 15 minutes so I don't think that it could be heat as the last crash occurred at a CPU temp of 43 C. I'm thinking that perhaps my problem is gtk-gnutella that I recently upgraded at about the same time as the crashes started. Like you and your setiathome, I'll kill gtk-gnutella before bed and see what happens. Keep me posted on your progress. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
