One of the best simple test for life is to hit the caps-lock key, and see if the caps-lock LED comes on.. If it doesn't.. the box is in pretty sad shape.
- jim On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:36:29 -0700 Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote: > > > > Ideas? Recommendations? > > it may only be X freezing up on you. sometimes ctrl+alt+f1 or > ctrl+alt+bckspc works to get out of a frozen X session. > > maybe some process on the box has found a way to use all userspace > processing cycles. icmp packets are handled at a very low level in the > OS... so often when a system isn't responsive and can't even be > connected to with ssh, it will still respond to pings. that's a good > test. > > keyboard events, I think, are also handled at a very low level but if X > is frozen then you won't see any echo. need a console for that. > > are you getting any messages in the logs that might give a clue? > sometimes you'll see a kernel oops. when my laptop crashes because of > my windows nic driver I see in the logs messages about about packets > that are too large. or disk read errors/timeouts... stuff like that. > > I hear compiling a kernel is a good way to test memory. if your > compiler segfaults (sig11), you probably have a bad stick. I've heard > this can be more reliable then memtest programs. > > - Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
