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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:21 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 19/06/06, Chris Linton-Ford <<A HREF="mailto:chris.lintonford@firebox.com">chris.lintonford@firebox.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On 19/06/06, Joe Klemmer <<A HREF="mailto:klemmerj@webtrek.com">klemmerj@webtrek.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > This is starting to sound like a HW failure of some kind.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> That's what I suspected, too. I have run several checks with Hiron's</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> boot disk, such as memtest86 and have found nothing.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Dotan Cohen</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I had a similar problem - random failures affecting a wide range of system</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and userland s/w. Ran memtest, it reported the RAM to be fine, but when I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> replaced the RAM the problems went away. If you can get a stick of known</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> good RAM, try swapping it in and see if it helps.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Chris</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'd love to- I've been looking for RD-RAM for about a year now. In</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fact, just now I got this:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ limewire</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Exception during runtime initialization</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">/usr/share/java-utils/java-functions: line 116: 5501 Aborted</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> $JAVACMD $FLAGS -classpath $CLASSPATH $OPTIONS $MAIN_CLASS "$@"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/swaps</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Filename Type Size Used Priority</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">/dev/hda2 partition 722916 41388 -1</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[dotancohen@localhost ~]$</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does this also look like a RAM problem?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Dotan</FONT>
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Yeah, I was getting the occasional "out of memory" errors as well, even though the swap was fine. I was looking for some RD-RAM a while ago for an old Dell desktop, eventually bought some from ebay as nowhere else stocked it. That may be your best bet.<BR>
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HTH,<BR>
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Chris
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