On Mon, 19 May 2014, Jason White wrote: > Dave Hellewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Loading video is a more or less reliable way to force a crash. However, > > system load does not appear to be the cause. > > I once had hardware problems on a video card that caused the entire system to > crash (because the video driver was in the kernel, as is now the norm). > > If crashes are becoming more frequent with no change in the installed > software, this strongly suggests hardware failures.
Running a modern kernel (>3.10)? I swear they seem so much less reliable on all of my hardware (mostly laptops). One I have when I run a a particular perl script that was making the CPU warm (not hot - only 60degC), and was crashing a few minutes into the job. The machine runs perfectly happy though when openshot is transcoding a video using all 8 cores and the CPU is running at 95degC. Another laptop tends to last a day or two before the wifi light flashes rapidly mimicking a fast version of the old flashing capslock kernel panic. Wedged so hard not even alt-sysrq b does anything. No idea what's going wrong in any of the cases, other than blaming the one common element between them all - that fscking in-kernel video driver. I feel like I'm using Windows Millenium Edition all of a sudden. -- Tim Connors _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
