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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way of tracing kernel freezes?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:42:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130614144243.GD2780@nukleus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BA33CF.5020009@iinet.net.au>

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:04:15AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:

> On 13/06/13 22:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> >> but I'd think that a corrupt memory would cause something different
> >> than a full freeze.
> > 
> > It usually manifests in segfaults that seem to come at random.  But it's
> > still worth a shot.  It's very easy.  Emerge "sys-apps/memtest86+" and
> > add this grub entry:

I found my old USB Gentoo which has memtest installed (and which I used
for my first test also). I let it run for two passes, both successful.
So the RAM seems fine.

> Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc.

It’s a netbook with a 6.5 Watt CPU. I’m going through the big emerge
again right now (3.5 hours in), and it never goes above 66°. Besides, the
freezes also happened when I didn’t do anything heavy. Just surfing
(though Firefox can also be heave for an Atom ^^).

Anyhoo, I’m running 3.8.13 again now. I didn’t have my config anymore,
so I oldconfig'ed it from 3.9. Let’s see whether it’s more stable. If
yes, hm... I can’t really report this to the kernel devs: “My netbook
freezes since 3.9, that’s all I know. Here, have my configs.” :-I
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13 13:47 [gentoo-user] Any way of tracing kernel freezes? Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-13 14:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-06-13 15:18   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-13 21:04   ` William Kenworthy
2013-06-14 14:42     ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2013-06-13 21:14   ` Paul Hartman

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