[plug] SUSE 10.3 HANGS hard - or Windows-like behaviour from Linux ....

[Paul Antoine]

Crucial package chips from the better manufacturers into their DIMMs, 
but even so the failure rate appears very similar to other makes which 
is why I suspect it's more to do with density than brand.

Just buy the cheap memory and replace it every year :-)  At $24/GB 
annual replacement seems a reasonable policy.

Can I have a new parrot... this one has expired!

P.

Richard Meyer wrote:
> Drat - the memory is Crucial (the make, before anyone points out that
> having memory is crucial), and it was fine for 2 years, and now
> this .....
> 
> Cheers
> RM
> 
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:38 +0800, Paul Antoine wrote:
>> Richard,
>>
>> This kind of hang is a classic sign of a memory problem. Anecdotally I 
>> am seeing a higher failure rate on ram with the increase in ram device 
>> density in recent times.
>>
>> I now run Memtest86+ as a matter of course when approaching an unhappy 
>> PC even when it seems like it might be other components as it reduces 
>> the number of variables... Memtest86+ is your friend!
>>
>> It's not dead... it's just sleeping :-)
>>
>> P.
>>
>> Richard Meyer wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 23:00 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on my machine and I have been getting
>>>> problems. The whole machine hangs such that I cannot ping it from
>>>> elsewhere and ALT + CTRL + Fx doesn't do anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is dead!! I'd quote the Monty Python sketch of the parrot, but I'm
>>>> sure you know it.
>>> Just in case anyone was losing sleep, worrying about this (unlikely, I
>>> know), the problem appears to be hardware. The subtle hint occured to me
>>> when memtest hung as well.
>>>
>>> I'm sending this from my laptop ATM. Thank goodness I had one.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> RM
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