From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:33:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecLFPeJbtn9VWfSxY88+XkKypFr-x0ptyy3-WWRSTuvJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j2r76u$rh9$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:
>>
>> I wish yours it's not a RAM
>> issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any
>> load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when
>> it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health.
>
> CPU load doesn't affect RAM errors. CPU load affects CPU errors. If you
> only get RAM errors during heavy load, the RAM is just fine, but your CPU
> has a fault.
Unless the CPU loading causes excessive heat and the RAM has problems
only when it gets hot.
In general semiconductor speeds slow down as temperature increases so
a RAM that's barely in spec at room temp could be out of spec at high
temp.
Just an idea.
- Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-21 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-21 10:27 [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes Mick
2011-08-21 11:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2011-08-21 11:42 ` Mick
2011-08-21 11:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-08-21 12:37 ` Mick
2011-08-21 15:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 15:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-21 15:33 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-08-21 15:43 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 16:08 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-21 16:26 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 17:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-21 17:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-22 4:54 ` Francesco Talamona
2011-08-21 12:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-21 15:30 ` meino.cramer
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