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Re: [PLUG] How To Diagnose System Instability?
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On Wednesday 30 December 2009 10:06:46 am Mike Leone wrote:
> Casey Bralla had this to say:
> > Lately my computer has started showing signs of instability. I get
> > rather frequent SegFaults which pop up windows in KDE and (usually) allow
> > me to restart applications. The computer is about 8 months old, and had
> > been completely fine up until about a month ago.
> >
> > At first I thought this was just goofiness with the latest version of
> > KDE, but after I removed half my RAM, the stability improved
> > tremendously. Also, my BIOS includes the memtest86+ program and it
> > shows errors (sometimes).
> >
> > I use Gentoo, so am compiling a lot of software. I've read that
> > recompiling the kernel is a great way to identify hardware problems since
> > it exercises the whole system so thoroughly. <sigh>
> >
> > So I'm struggling to identify which component(s) of my system are causing
> > the instability. Here are the things I've tried, with very limited
> > success:
> >
> > - run memtest86+. (Sometimes shows errors, but sometimes can run
> > overnight without any problems)
> > - Removed half the 4 memory chips. [I had 8 GBytes, so could spare the
> > RAM] (This helped, but not 100%)
>
> Sure sounds like the RAM is your problem.
>
> So throw out that RAM, and buy all new. It's cheap, and less frustrating.
>
But wouldn't RAM issues to isolated to individual chips? It bothers me that I
can remove half the RAM and the problem gets better, but doesn't completely go
away.
Also, is it possible that I've built a bunch of defective system libraries
since they were built with bad RAM?
--
Casey Bralla
Chief Nerd in Residence
The NerdWorld Organisation
http://www.NerdWorld.org
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