Win progs fall over Was: Re: Performance shock (BS)

[Robert L Parker]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:58 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Linux crashes? I ran Debian Woody from r0 until last week, about 3
> > years.
> > FWIW I replaced Woody with Ubuntu Hoary so far without problems.
> > 
> > Bob
> 
> I don't know Bob, I have never used Woody, and I don't have your
> computer and set up etc.
> I have been using Warty for 7 months now, however. If I "want" a sure
> way to crash it, at least on my machine, all I have to do is log out,
> and log back in again. It then goes all over the place and it's most
> adviseable to reboot the machine to start from a clean sheet...
> Thank god I don't really have to do that, being a simple single user
> machine. Sure, if I let it idle doing nothing, it won't collapse under
> it's own weight, but then, what use is an OS if you don't use apps on
> it, and just stare at the desktop all day long ?

No OS can ever be immune from memory errors, I'd try running memtest86
if I were you. Possibly a flaky disc drive might also be the culprit.

Bob