Re: Diagnosing System Crashes

Dave Hellewell <dave.hellewell@gmail.com> wrote:

Loading video is a more or less reliable way to force a crash. However, system load does not appear to be the cause.

I once had hardware problems on a video card that caused the entire system to crash (because the video driver was in the kernel, as is now the norm). If crashes are becoming more frequent with no change in the installed software, this strongly suggests hardware failures.