From: Uzi Refaeli (uzi.refaeli_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 27 Jan 2004 - 18:47:47 IST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ez-Aton [mailto:ezaton_at_tournament.org.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:43 PM
> To: Shaul Karl; Uzi Refaeli
> Cc: linux-il_at_linux.org.il
> Subject: Re: linux machine hangs
>
>
> The fact it happens only during high CPU demand, I would
> suggest checking that
> the heatsink is connected ok.
> Many boards have some sort of an alarm regarding over
> temerature (check to
> make sure it's enabled in the BIOS). If they don't, the CPU
> just overheats,
Did so, still hangs with no alarms...
> and freezes, and there's nothing you could do about it.
> It might be system overheat too - You should check it out.
> Try openning the
> computer case, and touching with your hand (and see if you
> can make it longer
> then 10 seconds) to the CPU heatsink. If you can (and you did
> it immedatley
> after the computer froze), it's not overheat.
>
> Let's try to see it from a different point of view - What
> didn't you change
> betwin the two computers?
The finger that push the power botton...;-)
It's totaly new machine...
What is the chance to get 2 fucked up hardwares?
>
> Ez.
>
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:51, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Uzi Refaeli wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > here is something weird:
> > > I had RH9 machine PIII 700 which used to just hang while
> i was compiling
> > > something every thing stop responding mouse, keyboard, no
> movement on the
> > > screen and no disk activity - nada... I had to power down
> the machine and
> > > restart it.
> >
> > I would try sysrq first. Might have prevented the need to
> violently
> > use the power switch and perhaps even to get some leads as
> to where the
> > problem is. You might want to look at
> > kernel-source/Documentation/sysrq.txt. In addition, my experience is
> > that these sort of problems requires a lot of patient (is
> this the right
> > spelling for willingness to wait more?): take a walk for a
> hour or two.
> > The machine might respond to previous entries during that
> time. Or it
> > might writes some useful information in the logs. In
> addition, can you
> > try making an ssh or serial connection to the machine?
>
>
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