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Re: back up account settings

Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:

> The Real Bev wrote:
>> Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>> 
>>> The Real Bev wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think there's something pathological about the machine.  It hangs 
>>>> every once in a while, and frequently (twice a day) when I run azureus. 
>>>>   I run ktorrent instead now (uptime 4 days 15 hours), the other 
>>>> bittorrent clients require layers of libraries and other junk that I 
>>>> don't have.  Yes, I'm lazy and timid.  Wanna make somethin' out of it?
>>> 
>>> Azureus is a resource pig.  I've had to ssh in and kill -9 java to
>>> recover from a session.  Strictly bittorrent now.  When python goes
>>> wonky I can kill it locally.
>> 
>> It was generally impossible to ssh in.  Stone cold dead.  Boot into 
>> another partition, fsck it from there, and then wait while it fscks 
>> itself before your very eyes.
>> 
>>> Run memtest86 yet?
>> 
>> No, but I downloaded it.  Floppy disk?  HAH!
> 
> No.  CD.  Surely you have an optical device of some sort.  Bootable USB?

Yeah, I wrote the ISO to a CD a little while ago.  Haven't tried to 
reboot yet.

> I mention memtest only because I had a series of unexplainable lockups
> recently.  First stick tested fine, second showed about 700 errors in
> the first 5 seconds.  That would do it.

Indeed.  I kind of think it's something that azureus does, though.  I've 
had crashes when it was the only thing running (alone, in the middle of 
the night) and when I was doing and downloading a lot of different 
things.  The common denominator, except for the occasional fluke, seems 
to be azureus.

-- 
Cheers, Bev (Happy Linux User #85683, Slackware 11.0)
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