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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:04:15AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 13/06/13 22:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> but I'd think that a corrupt memory would cause something different |
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> >> than a full freeze. |
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> > It usually manifests in segfaults that seem to come at random. But it's |
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> > still worth a shot. It's very easy. Emerge "sys-apps/memtest86+" and |
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> > add this grub entry: |
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I found my old USB Gentoo which has memtest installed (and which I used |
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for my first test also). I let it run for two passes, both successful. |
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So the RAM seems fine. |
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> Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc. |
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It’s a netbook with a 6.5 Watt CPU. I’m going through the big emerge |
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again right now (3.5 hours in), and it never goes above 66°. Besides, the |
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freezes also happened when I didn’t do anything heavy. Just surfing |
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(though Firefox can also be heave for an Atom ^^). |
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Anyhoo, I’m running 3.8.13 again now. I didn’t have my config anymore, |
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so I oldconfig'ed it from 3.9. Let’s see whether it’s more stable. If |
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yes, hm... I can’t really report this to the kernel devs: “My netbook |
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freezes since 3.9, that’s all I know. Here, have my configs.” :-I |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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