Freezes like that are nearly always cpu temp related IMHO,
make sure it's got a good fan / heatsink and that thermal
paste has been used, if the heatsink came with paste on it
make sure the sticker over the paste was removed :-).

jeremyb.

> From: C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2002/10/24 Thu PM 02:33:46 GMT+13:00
> To: Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Brain picking - linux server
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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