Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-19 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On 9/19/06, Frantisek Dufka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just few ideas: software - bug is swapping/pagefault code?, bad ram timings?, too high CPU clock? That's an interesting idea, It seems to be worth trying to downclock the device and check if it improves stability. Does anybody know how to

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-19 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:06:47AM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > I would really like to hear something from Nokia regarding this problem. There > may be a few other devices with faulty memory considering some browser crash > reports, reboots and instability for some people, a possible example c

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-19 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:47, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > > So, it's unclear yet if it is a software or hardware > > problem. > > Just few ideas: > software - bug is swapping/pagefault code?, bad ram timings?, too high > CPU clock? > hardware - high power requirements -

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-19 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: So, it's unclear yet if it is a software or hardware problem. Just few ideas: software - bug is swapping/pagefault code?, bad ram timings?, too high CPU clock? hardware - high power requirements - does it happen more when brightness is high or mem tester is run in ssh

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-19 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 03:06, ext Siarhei Siamashka wrote: ... > I would really like to hear something from Nokia regarding this problem. There > may be a few other devices with faulty memory considering some browser crash > reports, reboots and instability for some people, a possible example can be

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-18 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 00:03, you wrote: [...] > An interesting observation is that you need to gradually increase the size > of tested memory block. You need to start with testing 20MB first, then you > can try 25MB and so on up to 43MB. If you try to allocate and test a large > block of

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-18 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Monday 11 September 2006 00:34, Olivier ROLAND wrote: > > After playing with the device for some time, I got the same problem with > > lzma program this evening. And memtester also confirms that the memory is > > really defective :( > > > > # ./memtester 20 > > memtester version 4.0.5 (32-bit)

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-10 Thread Olivier ROLAND
Siarhei Siamashka a écrit : On Sunday 10 September 2006 11:36, Olivier ROLAND wrote: Your test work fine on my device. I see that you run it from /media/mmc1so I guess you format your memory card with ext2. Mine still vfat so I can't. If you got same error when running from intern

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-10 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sunday 10 September 2006 11:36, Olivier ROLAND wrote: > Your test work fine on my device. > I see that you run it from /media/mmc1so I guess you format your memory > card with ext2. > Mine still vfat so I can't. If you got same error when running from > internal memory then your device is broke

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-10 Thread Olivier ROLAND
Your test work fine on my device. I see that you run it from /media/mmc1so I guess you format your memory card with ext2. Mine still vfat so I can't. If you got same error when running from internal memory then your device is broken. Siarhei Siamashka a écrit : Hello All, I'm sorry for a

Re: [maemo-developers] defective memory? (was: problem with dspmp3sink)

2006-09-09 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
Hello All, I'm sorry for a long chunk of quoted text at the end of this message (it describes the sympthoms of the problem), but looks like I got an almost reliable proof that there is something wrong with the hardware of my device :( I tried to find some software that could be used for benchm