[Sussex] Athlon crashing

[John Crowhurst]

> Hi, I wonder if anyone has any ideas:-
>
> I have created a server using an Athlon XP1900 to act as a file/print
> server with Samba and as a terminal server for thin clients. Done it
> before and everything works fine except -
>
> Every so often Xwindows sessions on clients close without warning back
> to the xdm/kdm login screen. The machine itself doesn't crash, just the
> X server.
>
> So I changed to another Athlon mother board (moved the hard disks) -
> running at 900. Exactly the same problem. I'm using the same config on
> another PIII with no problems at all! The same thing happens in fact
> with ANY distribution (even Gentoo). HDD DMA is enabled and on the
> original machine the video shares the main RAM, but not on the temporary
> replacement.

Perhaps you need to look at the X server logfiles to see what is
happening. I dunno if you can change the startup script so that X starts
with

X 1>/tmp/stdout 2>/tmp/stderr

The server will then dump what is happening to /tmp/stdout

> Should I do something special because I'm running Athlon? The logs don't
> help and the only anomoly I can find is that about 2M of the huge swap
> space seems to be occupied shortly before X restarts. Nothing seems odd
> from "top" and I'm really stuck.

Unless its a heat issue, whether X windows is causing the processor to
overheat or something.

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John