From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18991198005 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D45B5E073E; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D7BDE06FE for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC9033D7CC for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.452 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.452 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.153, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.499, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z7p9l0chGROH for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BC6233BF0D for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UIMMs-0000lN-9Q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:00:02 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:00:02 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:00:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1363754548.1800.1.camel@hydra> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: dfd51621-3902-4a76-926d-c3d3011c7c0d X-Archives-Hash: da34a50951167200df3ac35e67df7f2f On 2013-03-20, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > >> That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of >> memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. > > FWIW. I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for several hours > and multiple passes -- but if I let it run long enough, it would fail. > I wouldn't be confident unless memtest ran for at least 12 hours (24 > would be even better). I should probably be more clear: I was talking about memtest86+ when I wrote "memcheck". > I'd also keep an eye on CPU core temperature. > > A failing hard-drive can also cause some pretty strange behavior. If > you're drives are smart (AFAICT, all recent ones are), ask them how > they're feeling with 'smartclt' or something like that. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at borrow 26.7% of the RAYON gmail.com TEXTILE production of the INDONESIAN archipelago?