Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 04:59 am, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: > Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them > tonight. > To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the > 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin > enabled kernel, but have revert

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I d

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:21 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > You've probably got a hardware problem. I saw James suggest memtest86, > which is a good idea -- I'd also drop a Knoppix CD in or better yet boot > with a LEAF disk and see what happens after a few minutes. If it barfs > after running LEAF for

[expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-06 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even Micro$oft Windoze. The lock up will happen anything from 5 minutes to 10 hours of boot. It must be the kernel locking u