
Hi All, I think I have fixed a longstanding problem in a desktop by lowering the DDR3 ram speed from 1333 to 1066 Mhz. The question I'm asking here is whether lowering the speed is the only way to go, or if there are alternatives such as playing with RAS/CAS timings?. Has anyone ever experienced a situation such as this? The desktop is old, running a quad core i5 at 3.1 Ghz. It started exhibiting an increase segfaults, page faults, dual linked list errors, and just plain crashes in the last year. I was able to correlate the failures to memory intensive processes, the worst of which turned out to be running chrome in headless mode. (For the longest time I thought it was just chrome). Also, moving the video driver from nouveau back to nvidia_drm made a big difference. Thanks -- Michael Galea

If it's old, I might guess that replacement memory is cheap on ebay. If I were you, I would try running memtest86 and see what it says. Assuming you're ok to shut the machine down for a while. Depending on configuration, you might be able to upgrade memory (and performance) for a very low price, while replacing your failing RAM.

It looks like DDR3. I have DDR3 too. Save your money for next computer. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Sellens via talk wrote:
If it's old, I might guess that replacement memory is cheap on ebay.
If I were you, I would try running memtest86 and see what it says. Assuming you're ok to shut the machine down for a while.
Depending on configuration, you might be able to upgrade memory (and performance) for a very low price, while replacing your failing RAM.
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