On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Chris Wells wrote: > Hi All - I need to use the MSOSUG hive mind!
Brains! Braaaainns. > I've got a newly built system (OpenSolaris 2009.06 / nv111b) which is > unpredictably panicking, and I want to narrow down why this is > happening. Come on, a little more detail on the hardware would have been nice. Without getting stuck into the meat of the issue - mainly because I haven't had my proper allocation of coffee yet - can you boot another operating system (Winduhs? Penguins? OpenBSD?) and slam the I/O pretty hard - perhaps writing very large files and then checking the md5 to make sure they're not corrupted? I remember having a situation on a few whiteboxes "back in the day" where everything *seemed* fine but I/O errors would show up periodically - mainly when unpacking archives, because they're checksummed - and the problem was memory timings, mostly. Drop into the BIOS and set the memory timings to a pessimal configuration and see if that helps. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: andre at purplecow.org jabber: andre at interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org
