nvidia - kernel (2.6.6) compile causes fc2 to crash

[Christian Schlaefcke]

Am Mo, den 31.05.2004 um 21:57 Uhr +0100 schrieb Luciano Miguel Ferreira
Rocha:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:58:57PM +0200, Christian Schlaefcke wrote:
> > I already tried compiling without x. The machine just locks, no kernel
> > panic or segfault. Shit, please don´t let it be a hardware issue :-( 
> > I would expect the machine to crash every now and then, but anything is
> > running quite fine. Sounds strange.
> > 
> > Any ideas how to find out what exactly could cause this?
> 
> Compiling a large project (like the kernel) stresses the processor and
> memory subsystem.
> 
> So it could be that your system is overheating (processor case), or that
> it hits a corrupted memory page (memory case).
> 
> For testing the memory you have memtest86/memtest86+ that already comes in
> Fedora Core install cds. (Although I doubt that's the problem. I'd expect
> some SIGSEGVs first.)
> 
> For the processor case, start compiling the kernel and keep checking the
> system's temperature (via ACPI or lm_sensors).

I checked memory, cpu and disks with several tools (memtest, pc-analyse,
maxtor disk tester) nothing. Is there anything else I can do to simulate
stress like that without compiling a kernel. Maybe this points me to the
broken hardware.

By the way: I did other (not so big) compilations on the system without
any problems.

Regards,

Chris