17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
23:07
On 9/17/05, Carl Hartungwrote: 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