Re: kernel freeze 2.8

["Michael R. Batchelor" <michaelb@ind-info.com>]

It may or may not be memory. Particularly since you have different
symptoms with different chips. Before I'd condemn or exonerate the RAM
I'd grab memtest86 and run a couple of passes. It may not be a perfect
memory tester, but it's way better than the bios test.

http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/



>It seems that it's not because of a memory err. With ECC memory chips
the
>messages goes away, but we still experience problems. After a while the
>console is dead and it's not possible to start _any_ TCP conns to the
>server (ie SSH), but the kernel will "happily" route packages.