hi all no postings in the list !!!
i thought i will share with you all couple of cute problems i had with linux... i had installed gentoo linux on a desktop pc with 256 MB ram and everything was working fine. because i was running quite a lot of things in this box, i thought i will put in another 256 MB. my colleague gave me a 256 MB and i put that in and everything worked well. after couple of days i was compiling something and it failed. i thought may be an application problem and left it there. then after a few days i began to get kernel panics. then i did a whole system upgrade and not a single app was compiling properly. i ran a memtest and the first test failed !!!!!!!!!! the second module was a faulty one. moral: always do a memtest after you upgrade / change memory. it will save you many hours of troubleshooting on the same system after fixing the memory issue, the cpu usage was hitting the roof after couple of hours of booting the system. the process hogging the cpu was "keventd". a google search turned up a few links which showed acpi related issues can cause this. the option "acpi=off" on the kernel command line solved this. regards bobby
