On 9/17/05, Carl Hartung <suselinux@cehartung.com> wrote: 

On Friday 16 September 2005 19:17, Kshitij Velhal wrote:
> > Seems like many people believe that memory is the cause for my problems
> > If so what options I have to fix that?
> Here are two options:
> - Try a different brand of preferably known good modules and compare.
> - Switch in BIOS from "fastest performance" to "most stable" settings.


I ran memtest and memory modules seem to be fine. 

> One thing I miss in my previous mails is:
> > The SWAP partition is only 560MB. I think I should try doubling it to 
> 1GB
> > before runnign memtest.
> memtest exercises the system's RAM (random access memory) and AFAIK, your 
> swap
> partition size has no effect on this.


I doubled my swap space from @512MB to to 1GB. Now the system seems to be 
more stable.
So far no crash or lockout.

> Anything else to be considered?
> systat is included in the package "procps". You've already received advice 
> on
> setting it up and where to learn about using it.
> 
> On Friday 16 September 2005 19:21, Kshitij Velhal wrote:
> > How exactly memory is managed by Linux(SuSE). Any specific 
> documentation?
> > Would like to learn more about this. Will google this topic.
> Experience proves that marginal memory can run that other OS but stumble 
> under
> Linux. How and why is a different topic. Yes, Google.


Thanks for the tips. 

Thanks,
-Kshitij