--- Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk wrote:
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....
What's called in the trade a possible error between keyboard and chair!
The final thing I could suggest is that maybe you have some faulty hardware? or are you overclocking your machine?
Dodgy hardware, no I paid for it all from a reputable supplier. Oh you didn't mean that, It could be the two network cards and the fact I only have one spare PCI slot left!
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 don't currently over clock but I might consider it.
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 ;)
In reply to a bet to crash a solaris box my self and a colleague wrote a program which made the machine fall over quite spectaculaly. The basic idea was - fork, fork, fork, fork ad infernitum. This it did quite well till it finally couldn't cope and fell over!
Thanks
D
Sz
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