Problem with linux

[Kyle Rose]

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> I running the same combo, 2.2.11 and RH 6.0. And was having the same problems.
> What I found was that I had a bad memory module or at least one that was
> incompatible with the other 2.
> In the first slot was a SEC set of chips from Korea and the other two modules
> were NECs when I removed the
> first and replaved it with one of the NECs, viola, everything was fine.
> 
> Before I did this uptime was measured in hours, minutes if I ran my memory
> stress program. I've been up for 5 days straight now.

I don't know if this is related, but 2.2.11 is known to have a serious 
memory leak during times of high network traffic; I doubt this is
related, but you should know anyway that 2.2.11 should be blacklisted
without the Alan Cox patch that fixes it.

I got burned by this today, and had to reboot my computer several
times before I remembered this problem report from the kernel mailing
list.  I went back to 2.2.10 until 2.2.12 is released.

> (the POST always said the memory was fine... ?->

Nowadays, most BIOS' POST's only count memory; they don't actually
test it.

Kyle


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