[KLUG Members] Page fault questions.

Adam Bultman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:39:52 -0500 (EST)


> 
> Perhaps the RAM isn't at fault, that is, you may not have run into a
> stray cosmic ray, but you may have run into a more common memory
> problem -- cache coherency. If memtest86 doesn't puke anything up, that
> would probably be it.
> 
> How new is the current configuration? Have you tweaked any settings?
> 

I'll see about running memtest on it soon - I need to, anyway.  As far as 
the config, apart from this, and last weeks reboots (same issue, postgres 
hung) it was over 400 days since it had been rebooted, and before that, 
probably around 300.  I haven't made any changes whatsoever, the machine 
was running like a swiss watch.  

I'm going to be doing more software changes and fiddling around with 
things that I can fiddle with - but I've got to take it down for a new 
tape drive (IDE) soon anyway, so I'll probably run the memtest program 
then (if I just don't replace the RAM with known-good RAM and then test it 
on my workstation later).

Thanks for the help.  I'll try to remember to keep you all updated.