On 27 May, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > > > Any suggestions? I guess I'm using a bit more memory, since we're > > running at 1600x1200 res, but even so ... At the moment X is sitting > > on 61MB, RSS 11MB, and there's 128MB free memory. Swap partition is > > small - 256MB. > > Does that mean you also changed the resolution?
Yes, from 1280x1024 at 24 bit to 1600x1200 at 24 bit. So, from about 4MB for the X session per user to about 6MB. I'm wondering whether it just tipped us over the edge into using virtual memory too much. How is VM nowadays? I know it's been dodgy for quite some time now, with much heated discussion amongst kernel developers. > What kind of video card to you have? RIVA TNT2 32MB - NVidia Riva Ultra 64 rev 21, Mem @ 0xd6000000/24 XFree86 Version 4.1.0 Release Date: 2 June 2001 Jan Schmidt wrote: > Well, I would try setting the X resolution back first. My machine here was > unstable with a generic 300W PSU whenever the CPU hit 100%, until I bumped > up the CPU and RAM core voltages by 0.1V > > Then I replaced the PSU with a higher rating, and it's been fine ever since. Sounds like me, before moving to the 300W power supply. > The machine was perfectly happy with the 300W under low CPU conditions. As > soon as I ran something like burncpu it would lock up though. Hmm, I guess I can write a while true do and see what happens. I'll send this email first, though. :-) Oh - one other significant thing. I was just discussing this with my wife, and the machine did *not* lock up 3 times today when she was using it. It did that only once. The other 2 occasions it was the mail program that crashed for no apparent reason. (It doesn't do this.) So I'm now suspecting either the mail program triggering the same problem Jan mentions (since it will load the CPU sometimes, depending on the auto spell checker etc.). But I'm very suspicious of it being a VM problem. Jan, did your crashes have any log message written to /var/log/messages, or was it a crash without warning? I'm also surprised that 2 of today's reboots (the one at 4am and the one at 6pm), were completely unattended. If the system had just locked up, it wouldn't do that, would it? The power would have to drop for that to happen, surely? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
