From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NfuiG-00045p-LK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:33:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8A09E0CD4; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C18EE0CD4 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:33:05 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KXQ00LGIAV5CF20@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,460,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="44807541" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o1CCX5oF001807 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 6A73DD81; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:12 +0100 (CET) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> Message-id: References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> X-Archives-Salt: fa564d5b-13e3-4056-8324-520c15dc1ae2 X-Archives-Hash: d08f5b986761d278ddfb9b03c369405f On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo, > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > Just one more reason. Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed? If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed. Some CPUs (among them AMD Phenom) have difficulties at the specified RAM speed if more than 1 memory bank is installed. I have been burnt by that several times. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany