From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:51:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103012351.52033.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103012314.24652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:14:12 Mick wrote:
> Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever
> crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time.
My machine is only about a year old, built by a specialist builder of high-
performance systems, so it shouldn't be experiencing hardware failures.
> Different OS' use memory differently.
Indeed they do. My experience is the converse of yours: Gentoo does not
hang, while Fedora and Mandriva do. It's not a problem with a particular
area of the disks, as I've installed them both in different partitions and
got the same result. I assume that some kernel options don't suit my
motherboard. Don't all laugh, but it's an Asus P7P55D.
> After a year or so though the WinXP installation eventually corrupted
> itself irreparably, while Gentoo (on reiserfs) soldiered on. Eventually, I
> bought new memory modules and there were no more crashes.
Maybe I need to replace the memory. That's a bit drastic though when I
haven't actually proved it faulty.
> memtest 86+ showed no errors, so I didn't know what to blame for all
> these crashes.
It's well known that test programs can't stress a computer the way real life
does. It was true of Ferranti Argus 500 systems in 1974, and I'm sure it's
still true today.
> After close observation I discovered that the machine would crash the
> moment it tried to start swapping.
Interesting. As far as I can tell though this box doesn't swap often - it
can go weeks without doing so. As I said the other day, my 4GB is enough to
contain the work I usually do.
> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather
> annoying, and/or when updatedb was running.
At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it just stops
responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network interface stops receiving
packets so I can't ssh in from another box to shut it down neatly. It's BRS
time.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 15:33 [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start? Dale
2011-02-25 16:56 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-25 23:06 ` Dale
2011-02-26 15:33 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-26 15:46 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:52 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-02-27 20:12 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-28 1:38 ` Dale
2011-02-28 7:03 ` Dale
2011-03-01 23:25 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-03-02 0:53 ` Dale
2011-03-02 14:15 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-25 17:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-25 23:10 ` Dale
2011-02-26 22:20 ` walt
2011-02-26 22:40 ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-26 22:52 ` Dale
2011-02-25 17:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-02-25 18:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-26 0:18 ` Dale
[not found] ` <4d67fbde.83a0df0a.5870.3917@mx.google.com>
2011-02-26 0:24 ` Dale
2011-02-26 9:27 ` Mick
2011-02-26 14:28 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-27 19:43 ` Mick
2011-02-27 20:23 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-01 23:14 ` Mick
2011-03-01 23:51 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-03-02 15:51 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:37 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:52 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-02 23:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-26 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-02-27 10:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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