From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Rich  wrote:   
   > root  wrote:   
   >> The system would run for a few days and crash again.   
   >>   
   >> I swapped out the power supply with a brand new 750w unit.   
   >> The crashes continued.   
   >>   
   >> I swapped out the motherboard/cpu/memory with one   
   >> from a working machine. The crashes continued.   
   >>   
   >> I updated the 10 year old bios on the motherboard.   
   >> I tried different kernels.   
   >> I updated everything with slackpkg.   
   >> I updated Chrome to the latest version. Chrome runs all the time.   
   >>   
   >> Only the computer case and NVidia graphics card remain   
   >> from the original system, and still the crashes persist.   
   >   
   > You've given us very little info with which to help.  But...   
   >   
   > Are you running the NVidia closed-source driver or the open source   
   > driver?   
   >   
   > If closed-source driver, then try the open source driver.   
   >   
   >> Among other Call Traces in the syslog I see something   
   >> that must have originated within Chrome, and another   
   >> crash from kswapd, when I have no swap partition.   
   >   
   > Hmm...  How much RAM?   
   >   
   > Chrome is a known memory hog, and if you have no swap, then anytime   
   > chrome trys to grow beyond the free memory left in the system's ram   
   > after everything else that is loaded, things will go bad very fast.   
   >   
      
   Thanks for responding.   
      
   I am running the NVidia driver. Nouveau, the alternative, does not   
   support driving two different displays, did not support HDMI sound   
   when I last checked, and may not support 4K video.   
      
   The system has 16GB of ram. Up until a few weeks ago the system   
   ran 24/7 and only was taken down to change SATA drives. Uptime   
   of several months was the norm.   
      
   I am beginning to think that this isn't a hardware problem.   
   The server functions at two levels: to gather, clean-up, and   
   source online data, and as a A/V server.   
      
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