[snip] Thank you for suggestion, I'm re-installing Gentoo and definitely run these tools.
For sure I have some hardware "memory" problem as my latest error message is: "Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?) CPU 0 Modules linked in: evdev via_rhine mii parport_pc parport ahci sata_uli sata_sis sata_sx4 sata_nv sata_via sata_svw sata_sil sata_promis libata sbp2 ohci1934 ieee1394 usb_storage ohci_hcd uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore Pid: 5626, comm: rsync Not tainted 2.6.11-gentoo-r3-k8 RIP: 0010:[<ffff....." Though I've run memtest86 two day ago and 17-passes went without any errors. -- #Joseph > > There are a few tools that will allow you to do some diagnosing. > > These will isolate your harddrive and drive controllers. > > app-benchmarks/bonnie (2.0.6): Performance Test of Filesystem I/O using > standard C library calls. > app-benchmarks/bonnie++ (1.93c): Hard drive bottleneck testing benchmark > suite. > > If is is the motherboard, it should fall over pretty quick. > > Another tool I like is - > > app-benchmarks/stress (0.18.6): Imposes stressful loads on different > aspects of the system. > > You'll have to add - app-benchmarks/stress x86, to your > /etc/portage/package.keywords > as they don't have the amd64 keyword in the ebuild. It builds and runs fine. > > Stress allows you to load all or parts of the system up for a defined period > of time. It's > even possible to run the system out of resources. It's a real nice test of > system stabilty. > All except the Xserver and that's easy to add by running 3 of the rss-glx > screensavers > from a term while running stress. And if you make the virtual memory > component large > enough at runtime, the system will start swapping. > > This line will get the load up to about 20 and cause about 500MB of swapping > to occur on a 1P amd64 system with 1 GB of main memory - > > stress --cpu 16 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 1024M --timeout 60s -d 2 > > Change the timeout to be around 5 minutes or 600 seconds. Get a tail -f > /var/log/messages > or use root-tail. And get a top running in another term. > > Bob > - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
