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Here's a strange one: |
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Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then |
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around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. |
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What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop |
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immediately, but the machine continues to run and run and run ... |
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At that point I have lost access to the keyboard and the monitor does not wake |
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up if I move the mouse. Using ssh to connect shows that the machine is off |
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the network, so I assume that the NIC is also suspended. The only way to |
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recover is to pull the plug. :-( |
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Unfortunately, mysql has left a lock file behind, so it won't start at reboot |
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until I remove the lockfile. |
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Now, here's the strange thing about all this. I have 4 RAM modules, 2x1G and |
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2x500M. Following the manual I have installed them in this order: |
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slot 1 - 1G, |
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slot 2 - 0.5G, |
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slot 3 - 1G, |
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slot 4 - 0.5G |
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If I try to suspend the machine soon after boot, when it is still using low |
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amounts of memory, the machine will suspend each time without fail (just like |
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it used to do in the past). |
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If I wait until the machine is using more than 1G or so, then it will always |
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crash. |
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I'm running memtest86+ just in case, but 3 passes and no errors are shown so |
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far. Suspend to RAM is really a time saver on this machine and was being used |
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at least 4-5 times a day. Now the box is running non-stop 16 hours a day or |
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more, which is wasteful (although with the Pentium4 I'm saving on central |
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heating bills!) Any ideas what I can look into to resolve this? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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