My main linux box here is acting bloody weird. The specs are: Supermicro brand P4 motherboard Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz 2 x 512 Mb dimms for 1Gb ram Two IDE hard drives and an IDE CDROM PCI S3 video card PCI Netgear FA311 NIC
Nothing particularly odd - but randomly (once a day or so) it freezes solid. No ping response, no keyboard lights, no nothing. Only a hard reset brings it back. Syslog simply displays the last messages on screen, often a call to spamassassin. /var/log/* contains nothing at all unusual. It freezes during the school day (IE, its under load) Never at night that I've seen. The only clue I have is this - at the last reboot the machine claimed to have 917000 Kb of ram, rather than the 1048576 Kb it normally claims. Whats that a clue of? I've booted the box with mem=900M to see if that could help. Thoughts?
