Server 'freezing'

[Rob Brandt]

No.  Prior to this the suspicion had been with the hard disk itself.

Are there utilities to test RAM?  Or is the only way with trial
and error replacing of RAM modules?

No, I hadn't tried to compile the kernal either.

Rob


>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:12:39PM -0000, Rob Brandt wrote:
>> > I suspect my problem, as well as yours, is hard disk
>> related.
>> > I've ran TechTools from OS9 and everything is fine except
>> for
>> > the test it can't run: linux drive test.  The e2fsprogs
>> suite, which fsck is part of, has a utility called badblocks
>> which
>> > obviously checks your drive for bad blocks.  I have yet to
>> try it.  My system is a production
>> > system so I'm a little leary about hosing the filesystem.
>>
>> man badblocks advises that this command should be run through
>> e2fsck  with the -c parameter, which I did.  On two tries, at
>> (near?) identical places, I got "Segmentation Fault"s.  At
>> which time it seems to have crashed.
>
> I didn't follow this thread from the beginning. Did you already
> think about checking the RAM? I faced similar symptoms on a x86
> machine some time ago: i.e. system freezing from time to time,
> applications
> segfaulting unpredictably, and, after the inevitable unclean
> shutdowns, I had problems with e2fsck too. Guess why ...
> Segmentation Faults. All problems were gone after removing two
> cheap memory sticks (never figured out which one of these
> actually was corrupt).
>
> Did you ever compile a kernel on your system? If this fails
> because of segfaults, as it did in my case, this could be a
> further indication of bad RAM.
>
> Carsten Milling
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