From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PnvmP-0003Lh-TR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:23:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B124F1C041; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F9D1C041 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB57ADEBD6 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2S8UOWn1NdTR for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366C5DEBC4 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201102051309.27808.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110207170011.5b197af8@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20110207170011.5b197af8@dartworks.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102111621.46555.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 99aa9bf84df96f3b10fcc06c7dd5e1dc On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:00:11 Keith Dart wrote: > That really sounds like flaky hardware, possibly bad memory. try > running memtest86+. Let it run overnight. That's what I thought. I have run memtest86+ overnight, but of course it didn't find anything. As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have so many parameters to adjust that I don't know where to start. -- Rgds Peter.