Adam Bower wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
All,
I have done what I thought was impossible. I have managed to get Linux to crash! I was simply writting an email and sudenly the Harddisk went into major hammering mode and the machine locked up. I had to do a hard reset!
I had thought this was impossible!
Linux can be fairly unstable depending on lots of factors!
usually caused by 'users' ;)... sorry, I couldn't resist....
The final thing I could suggest is that maybe you have some faulty hardware? or are you overclocking your machine?
I can vouch for that, had an overclocked cyrix 686 (the really early one that you coudl fry an egg on) and that was always failing over under linux or windows.. I set the clock back to where it should have been and it was then stable for the rest of it's life... also I have had some very bad experiences with dodgy simms/dimms.. it's a nightmare trying to fault find though....
I can honestly say I haven't had a kernel panic on 30 machines I look after in the last 3 years... maybe I'm just lucky ;)
Sz