On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. > When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens > during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. > Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine. > > What I have done to try to isolate the problem: > - I have run memtest86 during more than one day without errors, to > catch memory errors. > - I have run burnK7 see if it was a heat problem. The CPU heated > until 82 degrees and didn't crash. > - With the CPU at 82 degrees I could compile the Linux kernel. And > off course the temperature have gone down. > - I have tried many kernels: 2.2.19, 2.4.7-686, 2.4.9-k6, > 2.4.9-386. And was the same. > > The hardware of the machine is: > - AMD Atlhon 900 MHz > - 256MB SRAM > - Motherboard is a ASUS A7V with VIA KT133 > - A second IDE controler Promise PDC20265 > - hda: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive 11GB > - hdb: Maxtor 90648D3, ATA DISK drive 6GB UltraDMA33 > - hdc: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive 80GB UltraDMA33 > - Adaptec 2940U > - scd0: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07 > - scd1: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TS Rev: 1.01 > > What can I do more to find the cause of the lookups.
Start swapping hardware? :) Normally you'd expect it to be RAM, but you already checked that. > Jose Calhariz
