[ILUG] Re: Sleeping Beauty ;(

[Gerard Gorman]

>

Hi,
Some of you might remember this thread from last week..... Well things are still
shagged (Yes..I'm really starting to lose it now). The linux box (2.2.16) seems
to crash in a non deterministic manner.  On most occasions it crashed while
running a screen saver (no time correlation observable). It has also crashed
during compilations.

The other observation I made is it makes a mistake during a fft calculation.

The processor is a K6-500 AMD. Should I start getting suspicious of the
processor?
The only other fact that I can think of which may be important is that there is
no thermal paste between the processor and cooling fins (though it is firmly
attached with a fan). Might this be a problem of overheating. The core voltage is
2.2V which is the recommended.

I'd **really** appreciate suggestions regarding this as I am on the verge of
throwing in the towel and getting a regular intel proc & chipset. :((

Cheers
g


> Kenn Humborg wrote:
>
> > > Sep 14 04:02:00 athos anacron[5196]: Updated timestamp for job
> > > `cron.daily' to
> > > 2000-09-14
> > > Sep 14 04:04:05 athos PAM_pwdb[5309]: (su) session opened for user news by
> > > (uid=0)
> > > Sep 14 04:04:05 athos PAM_pwdb[5309]: (su) session closed for user news
> > > Sep 14 11:43:34 athos syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> > > Sep 14 11:43:34 athos syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > >
> > >
> > > ? Does this mean that news is crashing my system?
> >
> > No.  The news job ends (session closed for user news).
> >
> > Modify the startup script for syslogd to give it a "-m 20"
> > option.  This writes a timestamp into the logs every 20 minutes.
> >
> > This will help to determine exactly when the machine hangs.
> > If this stops it hanging, perhaps it is APM related, as this
> > will kick the disk every 20 mins.  Increase the interval until
> > it hangs again.  This might provide some clues.
> >
> > Later,
> > Kenn