On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:04:15AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 13/06/13 22:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> but I'd think that a corrupt memory would cause something different > >> than a full freeze. > > > > It usually manifests in segfaults that seem to come at random. But it's > > still worth a shot. It's very easy. Emerge "sys-apps/memtest86+" and > > add this grub entry: I found my old USB Gentoo which has memtest installed (and which I used for my first test also). I let it run for two passes, both successful. So the RAM seems fine. > Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc. It’s a netbook with a 6.5 Watt CPU. I’m going through the big emerge again right now (3.5 hours in), and it never goes above 66°. Besides, the freezes also happened when I didn’t do anything heavy. Just surfing (though Firefox can also be heave for an Atom ^^). Anyhoo, I’m running 3.8.13 again now. I didn’t have my config anymore, so I oldconfig'ed it from 3.9. Let’s see whether it’s more stable. If yes, hm... I can’t really report this to the kernel devs: “My netbook freezes since 3.9, that’s all I know. Here, have my configs.” :-I -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. The problem with FORTRAN jokes is that they never fit into a single li
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