From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3OkQ-0007mo-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:40:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0792E0515; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FB7E0515 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so382316ywm.46 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Tpfre6cb4kCZx3OsSMHMvh+db5AEbEbzIfXUMJgDZCM=; b=F9X/xWnIHH5J93p4r8dJAN8eCW8OUJVZQOPmb/vadDjricXsBA/875INSzZ26vSJhp B4PLIasN3FfxogWgQxpFjqItqKi+EJuq08bNRcPBGlOVgrFhiF5khUKHPZkSXrhm2Xth sIwe6Vv2UuUiJbvksDgVtUXr8CwPX+89DGGnE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=T1C86XcRET5npfkvcWfpe1hz/bJHz9qNrKskS2NZ9yn0ww8Jq2GT2S97maC9TyR6zz YEtmHww0aV9SpQCmyiRxV1vgSkI/0VRbbG6jy/At0nOEmnJIAPbrYzESJoW4M05oFyPO 4CUpm2kalaXLiTJ+Id8m57UKHGaP0mPx/Z+1A= Received: by 10.65.20.18 with SMTP id x18mr96184qbi.92.1227246003281; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.9? (dialup-4.230.117.9.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p31sm1674465qbp.18.2008.11.20.21.39.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4926499C.4030609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:39:40 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random segfaults with kernel 2.6.27 References: <350fc7cf0811201707y638930ddy4f2cc9bd4caabab7@mail.gmail.com> <492615DF.9000006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 233bc978-3664-4858-942b-9f1efe6cc1b5 X-Archives-Hash: e49a97543cbc4b549660fd8cffac103f Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Andrey Falko wrote: >>> >>>> When I had the symptoms you described, it turned out that my RAM >>>> voltage needed to be raised in the BIOS. >>> Hmm. My system *is* overclocked (I'm one of those "enthusiast" guys). >>> I'm running an E6600 that runs 2.4GHz stock at 3GHz with a good >>> aftermarket cooler (temps never go above 48C at full load). The CPU >>> is overclocked and *undervoltaged* (1.29V from its 1.35V stock). The >>> RAM is both underclocked (to get an FSB:DRAM ratio of 1:1) and >>> undervoltaged. The system has been confirmed stable though; 8 hours >>> Prime95 stress test with no errors, which is much more of a stress >>> test than any real application can pull off. It also passes memtest. >>> >> >> I used to overclock some too until I started running folding. Folding >> just doesn't like overclocking. I'm not sure what prime95 does but it >> could still be a problem even though it passes. Just a thought. > > I was running folding too (up to the point where it affected the > electricity bill :P) It ran with no errors. For the record, Prime > puts more stress then folding; it really brings the system (CPU, > northbridge and RAM, the GPU isn't affected) to its knees. > > > If you have ran folding and it works, then I would think you are ready for liftoff. From what I have read, folding is reeeeaaaaal touchy on overclocking. To think I bought a mobile AMD CPU and can't overclock because of folding. Dale :-) :-)