computer freezes randomly

BeetleJuice · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Austria

hi i got following problem:

the last weeks i noticed my system becoming more and more unstable.
i hadnt got any stability issues with other linux systems before.
i installed gentoo 1.4rc1, and it ran fine for a long time without any problems, and it rocks!

but now the system completely freezes without any reason, notably when using multimedia programs. but sometimes the pc also freezes when only xchat is running.

my specs:
Athlon Tbird 1.2 ghz
Infenion 256 SDRAM
Asus AV7700 Geforce2 Ti (3123 drivers)
Sb Live 1024 (used oss for a long time, now using alsa0.9rc5, freezes also with OSS)
ReiserFS filesys
XFree 4.2.1 (also freezed with 4.2.0)
Gnome2 Desktop env. (never got problems with it)

i didnt change my hardware for months and had never problems with it. i dont blame gentoo since it ran superb without any problems for a long time.. but now something is wrong

any ideas ?

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:14 am Post subject:

Try adding mem=nopentium to your menu.lst

I'm guessing that you're running a 2.4.19 based kernel right? - don't 2.4.19 is prone to laggy behavior for some reason, hopefully this will be fixed in 2.4.20, though I've seen no patches to adresse this problem directly. it wasn't there in 2.4.18 so I would try such a kernel also, to see if it helps.

Anyways, to figure this out it would be nice to know your CFLAGS and your kernel version, also which patches you activated if any.

BeetleJuice · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Austria

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe"

im using 2.4.19-gentoo-r9, i dont activated any special features except preemptive kernel

im emerging vanilla-2.4.18, lets see if it helps

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

Check the heat of your CPU... It's summer down under isn't it?

BeetleJuice · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Austria

CPU temp is 50° Celsius, not that bad

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:51 am Post subject:

psst, -mcpu is useless when -march is activated (march includes mcpu)

Anyways, do try adding mem=nopentium to your grub config file

here's snip of my /boot/grub/menu.lst

BeetleJuice · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Austria

ok,

now using vanilla-2.4.18 and added mem=nopentium to grub
time will see if its better

thx in advance guys

Proteus · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject:

@ aardvark:
Austria ist not "down under" and I doubt that it's summer there right now. But I am sure that it's quite warm right now in Australia... ;-)

(No offense intended!)
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Greetings,
Proteus

pilla · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 1:47 pm Post subject:

Sometimes it is something with the power supply, or something loose (cable, board) inside your computer.