John Jolet wrote: >>>On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: >>> >>>>My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when >>>>CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse >>>>point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it >>>>via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is >>>>left in the log files. How can I find the reason?
> sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb > ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll > get that behavior. I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of hard disks? -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! <http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=67907&t=1> Thunderbird! <http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=67907&t=183> -- [email protected] mailing list

