Dennis, I've had new boxes fail with bad memory in the first year. Sometimes overheating causes the memory stick to fail also. Then after its cooled it works perfectly.
You can pick up a CD ISO from http://www.memtest86.com/ its useful on any x86 hardware for thourghly testing memory problems. It used to come as a boot up option on Suse years ago. - Bill --- Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't have memtest86 on my system to run nor does it > apear to be in the > standard repositories. > > That being said - this machine has run for about 9 months > running Suse > without a system freeze even after a power outage - (I > have a good > UPS !) > > Dennis > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:41 -0700, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > Dennis, > > > > Have you run memtest86 on the machine? Perhaps your > having > > a heating problem or a bad voltage problem (line)? We > did > > have some thunderstorms in the area last night. > > > > - Bill > > > > > > --- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dennis, > > > > > > Ideas: > > > -What daemons are running? How is their long-term > memory > > > usage? > > > -What state is your system in when you go home? > > > (processes, > > > memory, cronjobs for the night, etc.) > > > -Are there any ssh/telnet/rsh sessions happening at > > > night? > > > > > > Suggestions: > > > -Check out your cronjobs... chances are you've got a > > > loop or > > > memory hog in there, and the kernel isn't dealing > with > > > it 'right'. > > > -Check your daemons for silly things like runaway > thread > > > spawning. > > > > > > /END BRAINDUMP > > > > > > --- > > > Brandon Mitchell > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > RLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > > > > > Bill Cunningham > > Cell: (775) 813-6892 > > http://www.cunndev.net > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > Bill Cunningham Cell: (775) 813-6892 http://www.cunndev.net _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
