Hello Mark, we are having problems with X11 slowly leaking memory, which then leads to a system crash. Do you see anything similar? My attempts at using valgrind have been inconclusive (if not confusing) up to now...
Cheers, Sergio On 27 Apr 2010, at 22:54, Mark Stodola wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines. Due to the > circumstances, I'm not in a position to upgrade them to the latest 5.x with > ease. Lately I've been having trouble with systems locking up hard that are > running an nvidia card using the 190.42 or 195.36.15 proprietary drivers. > Dual monitors connected via DVI, twinview. > > I've tried a GeForce 9600GT as well as a Quadro NVS 290 with varying success. > The Quadro seems to have lasted about a month before locking, while the > 9600GT is much more often, daily/weekly. I'm running the stock 5.2 kernel > (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) and Xorg (xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1). The > systems are generally idle when it happens. I'm having no luck capturing log > data or kdump data. > > The strange part is, having identical hardware in several locations, only > some experience the issue. > > Hardware: > Intel DG43NB motherboards (bios revision doesn't seem to matter at this > point, running 98,99,104, or 105) > ^- hardware revision is the same for all of them: AAE34877-402 > Areca ARC-1200 SATA RAID card (latest firmware, 1.48), running 2 320G seagates > Additional PCI-e NIC, Intel PRO/1000, running e1000e v0.4.1.12-NAPI > Single stick, 1GB DDR2 (800) memory > PS/2 Keyboard/mouse > > I'm curious if anyone else has run into similar problems such as this, and if > they have found a solution. I'm looking at trying the 185.18.31 drivers, > which seem to be "certified" for linux by a few software vendors, according > to nvidia's website. > > What driver versions and/or card make/models are people using successfully? > Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated. > > As I said, not all of them are misbehaving, and I have several with the same > config minus the video card running fine on SL5.2 and Windows XP Pro (SP3). > > Getting desperate, > Mark > > -- > Mr. Mark V. Stodola > Digital Systems Engineer > > National Electrostatics Corp. > P.O. Box 620310 > Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA > Phone: (608) 831-7600 > Fax: (608) 831-9591 -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin group - Office:75240 OnCall:164851
