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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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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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>> 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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Thank you for your suggestions. I have had no problems so far compiling my |
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Gentoo packages, and I often stressed my system with lengthy computations |
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without any issues. So I tend to think the RAM is good. |
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I thought that power supply issues would tend to occur under stress, not under |
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rest. But you are right of course, the problems may occur after some delay. |
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Unfortunately I've no idea how to test this. |
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I'll check the disk to see if something comes up there. I also plan to install |
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Ubuntu on some separate disk and see if the problem occurs there as well. |
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If these are indeed hardware related problems, I feel like abusing this group |
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(which is software related after all) with my problems. So, I'd also appreciate |
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suggestions which online community would be better suited for help with |
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debugging hardware issues. |
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Thanks, |
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Michael |
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