On 19/06/06, Chris Linton-Ford <chris.lintonford@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 19/06/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is starting to sound like a HW failure of some kind. > > > > That's what I suspected, too. I have run several checks with Hiron's > boot disk, such as memtest86 and have found nothing. > > Dotan Cohen > > > > I had a similar problem - random failures affecting a wide range of system > and userland s/w. Ran memtest, it reported the RAM to be fine, but when I > replaced the RAM the problems went away. If you can get a stick of known > good RAM, try swapping it in and see if it helps. > > Chris > I'd love to- I've been looking for RD-RAM for about a year now. In fact, just now I got this: [dotancohen@localhost ~]$ limewire GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL! Exception during runtime initialization GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL! /usr/share/java-utils/java-functions: line 116: 5501 Aborted $JAVACMD $FLAGS -classpath $CLASSPATH $OPTIONS $MAIN_CLASS "$@" [dotancohen@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda2 partition 722916 41388 -1 [dotancohen@localhost ~]$ Does this also look like a RAM problem? Dotan
Yeah, I was getting the occasional "out of memory" errors as well, even though the swap was fine. I was looking for some RD-RAM a while ago for an old Dell desktop, eventually bought some from ebay as nowhere else stocked it. That may be your best bet.
HTH,
Chris
