On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Hindrik Hettema wrote: > This looks more like the "VIA board deadlock" problem analyzed > thoroughly amongst others at the VIA-ARENA forum. DMA-wise something > seems wrong with these VIA-boards (bot J7F2 and J7F4). Some people > blame > the temperature, but not so. > > I myself had one "hang" with not even X-windows running, but that is > very rare. Many interactions on X increase the chance. > > I gave up, as no remedy except disabling totally DMA seemed to help > (and > thinking about changing the computer already for a very long time > now).
It definitely sees to be a kernel bug. I tried every Fedora since 5, several Ubuntu versions, and one or two Suse. All were unstable on my EN15000G w/1GB RAM. Memtest 86+ would run for days reporting no errors and NetBSD-Current was completely stable. What I did to kill the machine was boot without X and run my 'hammer' script which would dd some data from /dev/urandom, make a bunch of copies of it, and then MD5 the copies. Pushing a lot of data thru the disks and IO subsystem was enough to lock the system hard within about 30-60 minutes. NetBSD could handle the test just fine. Then I got Fedora Beta 9 earlier this week and my system seems stable with that. I ran several of my 'Hammer' scripts in parallel and one in a loop for about 36 hours. So, I'm not sure what the bug was, or when it was fixed, but it seems that the current Fedora 9 kernel is stable for me. Robert -- HELP ME FIGHT CANCER! DONATE HERE: http://tinyurl.com/ynq7uk -- Robert Thille 7575 Meadowlark Dr.; Sebastopol, CA 95472 Home: 707.824.9753 Office/VOIP: 707.780.1560 Cell: 707.217.7544 [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM:rthille http://www.rangat.org/rthille _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
