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On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:59:42 Michael Ulm wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I seem to get system crashes on my machine when it is idle for |
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> some time. Here is a typical crashing session: |
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[...] |
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> Maybe it's the hardware, but what kind of hardware issue could cause |
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> these symptoms? |
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> Any ideas anyone? |
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A couple. Either RAM or hard disk would be my first suspect. You can check |
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the RAM best by compiling any large package, such as gcc itself. Memtest |
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and its like can only find the most obvious faults and in my opinion aren't |
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worth their salt - if they can find a fault, it will already be obvious to |
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you. |
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Secondly, with the advent of SATA I'm suspecting a new class of fault in |
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hard disks. Not only do we have the traditional transfer errors, but now I |
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suspect it's possible for some faults to allow voltage spikes to be imposed |
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on the line driver and cause random errors in other subsystems. I may be |
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wrong, but I've had one experience of this already, and I'm currently |
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working to eliminate another disk as the cause of weird problems I'm |
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having. |
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Oh, and there's always the power supply. If that goes wonky it can cause all |
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manner of problems. You could well suspect it if problems don't occur until |
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after the system's been running for quite a while. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Humphrey |
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Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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