Comment 65 for bug 585765

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Tech2010 (technologyresearch2010) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes

I seem to still have the freeze. This is an Atom2 motherboard. The BIOS suggests using 2GB DDR2 memory with 5-5-5-15 (667MHz) timings, but the board is equipped with a 2GB 6-6-6-18 (800MHz). Because of the "sudden death" of the freeze, I started to wonder about memory. So, I wrote a little program that allocates memory until it fails to allocate memory. Real memory usage topped out at 90% and the remainder was swapped out. The program reported in the neighborhood of 3GB allocated. I did not do extensive read/write verifications and memtest will not run on this system (never has - exits reporting not enough memory to run).