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[Vollstrecker]

But , as RRM, showed already, these bugs can be cought, too.

Wrong. RRM's problem was clearly an aMule problem, caused by extreme conditions. Now this here is rather of the "broken environment" type. Nobody can help you with this I'm afraid.

Not wrong. His problem was caused by something different, under different circumstances, but like this one here, it seemed to only affect him, and and the beginning the informatins weren't usfull and didn't point into the right direction.

[btkaos]

As I said you must try SID/unstable on that board. Until you do that we cannot help you.

[joker4791]

Hi,

the gigabyte board is running fine, 24h without crash. So it seems broken driver whatever indeed.

The bad news is that my low power system now consumes 58 watts instead of 28 watts with the via board  .

Another thing I'm wondering of is X server configuration: I always had a resolution of 800x600. But when I connected my 19'' lcd display, the X server adjusted to 1280x1024 automatically. Also the messages

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** (amule:24938): CRITICAL **: clearlooks_style_draw_box_gap: assertion `height >= -1' failed have disappeared since.
Is it possible to make this setting permanent i. e. in xorg.conf, so that the settings are also available with no display connected (because I want to run the system headless and want to connect via VNC)?

The next step will be to do a fresh install of debian lenny to get power management working properly and make all cpu cores running.

@btkaos
BTW: what's the difference between lenny and sid here? The board's design is from 2006, so there shouldn't be anything new like chipset etc., isn't it?

Regards,
joker

[btkaos]

@btkaos
BTW: what's the difference between lenny and sid here? The board's design is from 2006, so there shouldn't be anything new like chipset etc., isn't it?

Sid has much never drivers and a lot of fixed bugs (of course is bleeding egde, so it may be useful for testing).

In particular for VIA drivers the difference should be noticeable, note that back then via was not very open source friendly.

You won't lose a lot of time by testing SID.

Regards,
BTKaos

[joker4791]

Hi,

You won't lose a lot of time by testing SID.

OK, I'll give it a try.
At the moment I don't have much time, so that can take a while...

Regards,
joker

[joker4791]

Hi,

I finished testing now and the via-board wil R.I.P.
As btkaos suggested I updated to sid. Still crashes, kerneloops and so on. The System seemed a bit more stable, but far away from productive server. This morning then my ext3 filesystem is broken and all data gone .
BTW: I ran memtest to verify memory is working well a while ago. It seems to me that the C7-D cpu is energy efficent indeed but has some other disadvantages.
So I now have to build a new server from the beginning with the (so far absolutely stable) Gigabyte GA-M720-US3...

So here's my conclusion: keep your hands away from that crappy via-boards!

Thanks all for your support,
Regards,
joker

[btkaos]

As btkaos suggested I updated to sid. Still crashes, kerneloops and so on. The System seemed a bit more stable, but far away from productive server. This morning then my ext3 filesystem is broken and all data gone .
BTW: I ran memtest to verify memory is working well a while ago. It seems to me that the C7-D cpu is energy efficent indeed but has some other disadvantages.
So I now have to build a new server from the beginning with the (so far absolutely stable) Gigabyte GA-M720-US3...

So here's my conclusion: keep your hands away from that crappy via-boards!

A pity to hear that, unfortunately VIA wasn't very open source friendly at they will pay it.

[joker4791]

Hi,

..., unfortunately VIA wasn't very open source friendly at they will pay it.

I really don't get that. I had an epia me-6000 since 2005/11 and an epia mii-10000 since 2007/02, both running C3 cpus, without having problems in stability and linux support here was IMHO really good.  The C3 with 1GHz became a bit too small since I added more and more applications (i. e. running at 100% for a few minutes a day), so what I was looking for was a "small" upgrade.
OK, the via boards are less solid than usual server boards, I have broken capacitors on my mii, but after running almost 3 years 24/7? MTBF is at 30000 hrs and so I think that's OK.

What I got now is a BIG upgrade: 4 cores, each running at 2200MHz. Now THAT should last for a while  ...

Regards,
joker

[btkaos]

..., unfortunately VIA wasn't very open source friendly at they will pay it.

I really don't get that.

http://www.petitiononline.com/vialinux/petition.html

http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/About

[Note that the situation has improved]

Regards,
BTK

[Vollstrecker]

I really don't get that. I had an epia me-6000 since 2005/11 and an epia mii-10000 since 2007/02, both running C3 cpus, without having problems in stability and linux support here was IMHO really good.

That depends on the scenario, or what features of the cpu are used. I remember my old AMD K6-2 500 cpu, no problems while gaming or doing the usual stuff. but every kernel I compiled with it stopped with panic. When I used the .config for this kernels on another machine and just installed them here, all worked fine.

[stoatwblr]

Just a question: does this happen with 100 downloads _downloading data?_ or simply with 100 downloads active (even if waiting)??

Regards.

Apologies for missing updates on this thread.

100 sessions actually  downloading. The number of active/waiting sessions is usually significantly higher here.