On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about > > > 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have > > > any idea of how else I can track this down? > > > > In a word, memtest86. > > > Memtest86 passes without error or crash, for that matter. But, good > point. I tried that yesterday. Hmmm. it's been up 4 1/2 hrs now. > That's the best so far today.
Ernie, Hi. Sorry for your troubles. I'm having very much the same problems. I haven't solved them, but I'm making headway. In my case the situation seems very similar. The machine's been up for maybe 8 months and has been very stable. I've run setiathome on this box since I built it. I've never had problems until the last few weeks. Starting 3-4 weeks ago the machine has been crashing a lot. It's hung with no keyboard or mouse. I cannot ssh into it. Only a reset gets it going again. memtest86 runs for a day with no errors found. In my case, since the machine fails more when setiathome is running, folks here suggested that heat was the culprit. I thought that was a reasonable idea, so I set up lmsensors and took some data. My CPU fan is variable speed, and I was setting it very slow. Here's the temp data I got: Fan Idle Seti Speed Machine Running (RPM) (Deg. C) (Deg. C) 1940 66.4 77 2150 64.4 74 2460 61 70.4 2960 59 65 4272 55.4 59.4 I took this data just before I left for Thanksgiving, so I haven't really finished, but I ran setiathome for a while (2 hours) with the 4272RPM setting and it didn't crash, but that's no proof. At this point I'm going to run for a while without using setiathome and a low fan setting and see if it crashes. If it doesn't, then it's either heat by itself, or possibly heat combined with somethign like setiathome with my current make.conf options, triggers some problem. I'd be interested in whether you've tried to get some data like this? As I say, this machine was stable all through the summer running setiathome when the house was warmer. It didn't crash. Now it's winter, the house is cooler, but the machine is crashing. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
