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?

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