alan wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Vaishak Belle wrote:
Hello all,
I seem to have a little problem with my fc4 for sometime now. The
system runs good for sometime but when under heavy load ( couple of
browser windows in one desktop, xmms in another etc.), it crashes.
Mouse stops responding, wireless fails and refuses to reactivate etc.
Its renderred completely useless! I initially presumsed it was the
Gnome crashing but i have been using kde for sometime and the problem
persists.
Any ideas ?
Run memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) and see if your memory is failing.
It could be high enough up that it takes a few programs getting loaded
for you to hit that point.
I think there is also a package to add it to the boot menu. I have
not tried that though.
Memetest86 will require a reboot, but since you are crashing anyways...
If you install memtest86+ from core (I think), then run
/usr/sbin/memtest-setup as root, it will add the memtest86+ option to
GRUB. You really should run that for a few hours, just in case. The
other things I'd look at is the heat on each of your components (CPU and
vid card mainly) and reseat the memory.
-Dan
