Quoting Patrick Cole:
:I know I'm runing a G400 32MB DualHead, and I got lockups periodically until I
:got the QQ beta bios. It seems to have dimmed most of my problems for the time
:being, but I suspect they will arise again, maybe not as frequently though.
Yes, I too have a G400, 16 MB Dual Head. And I too got lockups.
I don't know the BIOS I'm running... my machine is up, and I can't seem to
find the /proc file that will give me by BIOS version, but it's not QQ.
When it locks up, the X server freezes, no SysRq key (no keyboard actually)
and no network (tried to ping it from another machine). No other choice
but to press reset! One morning, I had the machine beeping painfully,
completely locked up, which happened in the night.
Lockups have happened inconsistently. Several ones during the night,
other times in the middle of typing an e-mail, while browsing under
Netscape, etc...
I'm constantly runnning 2 rc5des clients, and use X. My machine is up 24/7,
except when it crashes.
I've reproduced the exact same configuration that I had when my machine
crashed within 36 hours (1 VMWare, 16 xterms with 7 running rlogin connections,
1 remote xisdnload displaying on my server, 1 remote xload, 1 local xload,
xconsole, xearth in the root window, and around 5 Netscape windows).
However, the machine is:
8:51pm up 6 days, 12:49, 16 users, load average: 2.09, 2.08, 2.04
That does not prove anything yet, except that I'm well over the 36 hours
reliability that I had before.
My config is:
BP6 (of course)
2 Celerons 466 Mhz, not overclocked with fans (no thermal glue)
288 MB RAM
Matrox G400 16 MB, Dual Head
1 Tekram DC390
1 Tekram DC390F
1 SCSI disk IBM 9 GB
1 IDE IBM 18 GB (on ide0, i.e. not UDMA/66, although the disk is)
1 PS/2 mouse
1 NE2000 clone
1 Plextor SCSI CD-ROM 40x
USB disabled in BIOS
VGA IRQ disabled in BIOS
Good 300W power supply with UPS
2 fans (1 sucking air in at bottom, 1 extracting hot air under PS)
Running 2.2.14 SMP
Temperature of Celerons: 50 C (alarm set to 65 C in BIOS)
System temp: 50 C
and I simply tried this, in my loadlin parameters:
mem=287M
i.e. ONE MB less than what I have. The "free" command reports:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 289244 282604 6640 144360 67740 99884
-/+ buffers/cache: 114980 174264
Swap: 263144 12352 250792
so I've started to page-out slightly.
I don't know if it's pure statistical coincidence, or if the mem= thing
did something? I wonder why I had this idea, but anyway...
I've prepared a memtest86 boot disk, and another one with the bp6.b01 BIOS
ready to flash... waiting for the next lockup.
Raphael
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