On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:16:55 -0800 (PST), Poul Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: "Whats the most stable system at the monent?" > Answer: "The one that doesn't crash" > > But seriously, there is a bit of voodoo magic in all of this. I > had a RedHat 9 box with a bttv/btaudio capture card that couldn't stay > up for more than 6 days without an Oops. I eventually replaced > *everything* except for the capture cards (MB, Ram, HD) and upgraded > to FC1 and now it's fine. I've got other RedHat 9 servers (NFS, etc) > that *never* crash. I've even got another RH9 box with software capture > cards that crashes every now and then, but much less often than > every 6 days. There are too many factors to boil it down to a "stable > system at the moment". General sysadmin state machine applies: > > 1) Is it working? > YES -> STOP > NO -> #2 > 2) Change something -> 1 > > :) > > -poul >
You forgot secret step 1b) Is there something you REALLY want to watch on? My Mandrake 10.0 ran steady for a couple months once I quit fiddling with it and left it alone, the new season of Monk starts tonight so, of course, my capture card seems to have died.
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