Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:50:02PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The > >_only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a > >chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The _only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny/Sid but I didn't want to go that route. After having done it, setting

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:48:40PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > >Mike Robinson wrote: > >>I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing > >>Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. > > > >Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think > >I'd like to

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Te

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding > additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know > that if I had to reinstall my current machine, I'd want to pull a list > of what was in

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:28:07PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Mike Robinson wrote: > Well,

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot wit

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd >>> like to boot with an Etch install

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Testing installation with

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Mike Robinson wrote: >> I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. >> Anyone with insight would be appreciated. > > Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd > like to boot

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Tes

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-24 Thread David Fox
On 7/24/07, Mike Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I went ahead and performed the above. The compile session did crash a few times as usual, but the oom-killer never appeared. In fact, looking through the logs, it hasn't appeared since July 15th (the logs I posted earlier). So, I'm assumin

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Next time you compile things, start a couple of sessions (=separate > windows): > - vmstat 5 - to keep track of free memory and swapping > - top - sorted so the most memory hungry processes are on top > - tail -f /var/log/syslog - to see when oom-killer fires up > - a co

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Robinson wrote: > >According to this you're running out of memory!? At least the oom-killer > >is (disturbingly) active before the reboot, but the messages are pretty > >definite: your 2G swap is maxed out. That's bad and will cause all sorts > >of problems... > >This *could* be an unhandle

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl, First off, thank you very much for looking so closely at my logs! I truly appreciate your time. I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been > unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) > an

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:37:45PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. > I first went that route: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html > > Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. I first went that route: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are fully compatible with 686 (they never would have sold a chip otherwise

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been > unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) > an

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Joe Hart
On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:22:47 Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's > been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash > (disappear) and the syste