Comment 198 for bug 1690085

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In , chewi (chewi-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Tyler from comment #112)
> As a test, I've been running like below with an uptime of 12 days without
> any freeze or strange syslog entries. Note that this is with the patch Seth
> mentioned far above _reverted_, so at least for me this seems to have fixed
> the issue.

I'll have to try it myself then.

> So... are you guys sure your freezes are no UEFI setting and/or kernel
> config and/or hardware, most probably RAM, issue? Especially RAM is really
> critical on this platform and maybe Memtest cannot detect it...?

I am booting in legacy mode so I doubt it's UEFI related. As someone who actually does have faulty RAM but has worked around it (for now), I can say that while it might have caused the odd freeze earlier, it was more apparent in other ways like random disk corruption (particularly when using git) and the browser constantly crashing until I rebooted.