Applications unusable

[Chris Linton-Ford]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:21 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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


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.

HTH,

Chris
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