>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:57:59AM +0200, Jean Orloff wrote: >> > I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But >> > since I installed 2.1 on my new PC at work, about a year ago, that >> > machine undergoes about a crash per month in average. Nothing to >> > scare a windblows user, of course, but unbearable for someone who >> > knows this should not be so. Especially as these crashes are >> > unrecoverable: screen frozen, mouse/keyboard frozen (no vt >> > switching nor clean reboot possible) and even no access from >> > outside through the network. Thus no alternative to the brutal >> > power switchoff, with subsequent fsck'ing of the whole disk. >> > When does this happen? Always with a heavy load (2-3 users on a >> > 128Mb pentium 400, each with several windows, netscape, emacs etc >> > + some compilation or latex2html going on); always with at least >> > one remote ssh login. I also sometimes had the impression of the >> > mouse freezing temporarily before the total crash, but you know >> > how short time causality can be violated in the human brain. > >I had exactly the same symptoms here (P-133, custom 2.2.17, potato, >helix-gnome). Hasn't happened recently. Seems to have been a SW issue, >and Bjoern is right. Or we're both hacked.
Hmm, I had exactly the same symptoms over last summer, turned out to be a temperature issue. Now that outside is back to below 20°C the problems gone, in the meantime I reduced CPU-temp by disabling the search for ET ;) and backing down from 133 mhz to 60 mhz. just my 2 cents worth, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
