[mythtv-users] Hard Backend Lockups

[David Brieck Jr.]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Ronald Frazier wrote:
>  > I had that happening on my new system last year. Turns out I had a bad
>  > memory slot that was only intermittently generating errors. I ran it
>  > through a few rounds of memtest86 and got no errors. After a few
>  > months, a rebuild, and swapping out some hardware I still had the
>  > problem. Frustrated, I swapped out the motherboard and the problems
>  > went away. I ran the previous motherboard through a more extensive run
>  > of memtest86. I think it wasn't until the 10th or 15th pass that it
>  > picked up the memory errors. From there I was able to narrow it down
>  > and determine it was one of the memory slots that was bad, and only
>  > failed memtest86 on about 5% of the passes.
>  >
>  >
>  Second that.  Run memtest over a weekend when you're not home.  I've had
>  mystery crashes that only show up after running memtest for a long, long
>  time.
>

I was thinking it's probably something memory related too, but I don't
get why there are a bunch of other people with the same problem, they
can't all have bad memory.

In any case, I don't have the time to bring my backend down for an
extended period of time to run memtest. What I did do however, was
move the memory around so it's not running Dual Channel any more. I'm
wondering if maybe that is magnifying the effects of a minor problem
that otherwise might never surface.

Does that make sense?