[Linux-disciples] amd64/pae (>4GB RAM) troubleshooting

[Stephen R Laniel]

memtest?

On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:

> Does anyone have experience troubleshooting 64-bit/pae kernel issues?
> 
> I recently found a cheap quad core CPU/6GB RAM mobo/high end video card 
> on craigslist and installed it. I've worked through a lot of 
> configuration difficulties but got stuck with instability trying to use 
>> 4GB RAM, with either a pae or amd64 kernel. The issues aren't 
> reproducible but are frequent -- lots of processes segfault for no 
> reason, then after a while it seems that nothing works at all and the 
> system is so unstable that it needs rebooting. Any ideas how to start 
> narrowing the issue? The system seems decently stable with a standard 
> 32-bit kernel.
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