On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 17:22, Ernie Schroder wrote: > This machine (Athlon XP-2100/512Megs RAM Leadtech K7NCR18D Pro board) > is still crashing. the average uptime has been about 5 hours. I've > gone through all sorts of possible solutions to try to catch problems > but nothing gets logged. Cpu temp, cpu load, memory usage and running > or not running several newly updated apps all seem to have no bearing > on when the box crashes. For the last 3 days I have been trying to > eliminate a few more possibilities. I booted the box to Knoppix for > 24 hours without crashes. Because Knoppix has no nvnet module for my > onboard NIC I fount Overclockix which is a remastered knoppix with > the modules I needed. > http://overclockix.octeams.com/ > Overclockix also ran flawlessly for over 20 hours. > Next I booted back into Gentoo and emerged Windowmaker and got a > basic WM desktop running. Now, I don't have nearly all I need > configured but I can function. The box was up for 12 or 13 hours > running wm without crash. I've restarted KDE and I'm showing 260 + > megs of ram used with only Kmail running compared to 124 megs under > similar conditions while using Windowmaker. > I guess I'm grasping at straws here but it seems to me that KDE might > be my problem. I was thinking of recompiling kde. Would something > like <# emerge -e kde> rebuild all of KDE and dependancies? Other > possible solutions would be appreciated. are you sure you have configured your kernel proper? kde doesent use all the ram, its cache'ed. for faster access. if the ram is needed, the kernel will free it.
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