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Re: [PLUG] How To Diagnose System Instability?
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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.
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