From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrAhb-0005vc-7J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 08:28:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j698RD1F007786; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:27:13 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j698RC2p023106 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:27:12 GMT Received: from gaia.prhnet (unknown [84.12.164.30]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7957D25D0DC for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:27:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.129.25] (wstn.home [192.168.129.25]) by gaia.prhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06372122B8 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:27:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42CF8A71.5090307@gotadsl.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:27:29 +0100 From: Peter Humphrey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050704) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Incipient hardware failure? References: <42CA5774.9060907@gotadsl.co.uk> <1120624277.23834.3.camel@athlon> <42CB993E.1090402@gotadsl.co.uk> <42CEA2DC.70205@gotadsl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac294e11-8fc7-4d87-b78c-0ab1556f17c9 X-Archives-Hash: 96a927e6b7fe69aa73d24c6b55875715 Duncan wrote: >Note that there's a kernel command line parameter, something like mem=512M > > So there is - I'd forgotten about that. Of course it would restrict the amount of RAM that's being tested, but it may be worth trying; thanks for the idea. Meanwhile I think I don't need to get swapping as I've got two instances of the script operating in competition, one on each physical disk. What with the BOINC clients, some routine emerging and ordinary X user activity, if this doesn't break the system I don't know what will! -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list