system lock up

[Bill Rees]

Benjamin Franz wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, chris wrote:
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>> I dont see anything out of the ordinary that something is wrong, I 
>> can let the system sit for days and it runs fine, but when I start 
>> doing work on it, I start seeing the freezes (it froze up twice in 
>> about 3 hours today).  But sometimes I can work several days in a row 
>> without a problem.
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>> I would like any ideas on how to debug this.
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>> My System:
>> Motherboard: IWill DP533
>> Processors: Dual 2.4GHz Xeon 533MHZ processors
>> Video: ATI Radeon 6500LE
>> Hard Drive: several small external SCSI Hard drives
>> Memory: 1G RAM
>> O/S: Fedora Core 4
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> I would look at your power supply. If you have a spare high wattage 
> (480 Watt or bigger) P/S handy, I would try swapping it. A flaky power 
> supply can cause random crashing - particularly under load. Other 
> things that commonly cause random crashes on previously stable systems 
> are overheating and bad RAM.
>
Is this a new Xeon system will multicore?  I.E. are you running an up 
kernel on an mp system?