Subj : Re: Server crashing
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Wed Nov 15 2000 09:37 pm

 LE>> I think the message the last time was something about a page
 LE>> fault error.
 DG>> A page fault error is bad RAM in the server. Quite possibly not
 DG>> enough RAM in the server, but also quite possibly a bad {or going
 DG>> bad} memory chip that only gets worked when you're doing really
 DG>> disk intensive activities which flog the cache to the limit.

 LE> Lovely. And how do I locate it? Especialy since none of the RAM is
 LE> more than a year old.

Well, you can either boot to DOS and run an intensive memory checker - take the 
RAM out of the Netware box, put it into a Linux box, and try to compile a 
kernel on the Linux box {that gives RAM a _flogging_}, or do it the old 
fashioned way - by swapping a piece out at a time, and seeing if the problem 
persists.

Good luck!

DaZZa

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