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From: Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:55:55
Message-Id: 4364511C.1060607@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly? by John Jolet
1 John Jolet wrote:
2 >>>On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>>>My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when
5 >>>>CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse
6 >>>>point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it
7 >>>>via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is
8 >>>>left in the log files. How can I find the reason?
9
10 > sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb
11 > ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll
12 > get that behavior.
13
14 I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of
15 hard disks?
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