On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:10, Toralf Lund wrote: > Bret Hughes wrote: > > >On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 06:45, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > > > >>I think I'll try asking for help with this one once more: > >> > >>I still get a lot of segfaults on my Red Hat 9 machine. These always > >>occur when I put high load on the system, but apart from that, the > >>behaviour is completely arbitrary; any of the running processes may > >>crash, and more often than not, it's a different one from the one > >>actually loading the system. The system log doesn't tell me anything > >>about what happened. > >> > >>As always, I suspect a hardware problem, but I'm at my wit's end when it > >>comes to figuring out exactly what component is faulty. I'm very nearly > >>sure it's not the memory, though, as I still get the behaviour after > >>replacing the entire RAM. > >> > >> > > > > > >Two things come to mind Heat and power. Heat will cause a hard working > >CPU to do weird things and a weak or undersized power supply will do > >strange things as well. > > > > > I've replaced the PSU, but that didn't help. I'm not sure if the new one > actually has more power, though... Also, I'll try to find a new CPU fan. > I'm starting to wonder if the problem might be CPU itself, though. Note > that it seems to be fully loaded when things go wrong. > > >First ting I would do is monitor the cpu temp with lmsensors and see if > >there is a correlation between cpu temp and the failures. > > > > > Yes, probably a good idea. I've never run lmsensors on this box, though, > and it doesn't work directly ;-( It starts, but the values returned just > don't make sense at all. This is on an Abit KT7 mainboard. Ideas? > > - Toralf Been awhile but seems like I had to tweek some stuff to get it working right on the boxes I installed it on. Have you checked the docs? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
