Where's the culprit?

[Peter King]

In the end there seem to have been two culprits, each hardware-related. On
the one hand, there seems to have been some bad memory, as shown by the page
faults even on boot via dmesg. I pulled the new memory I had installed, put
back in the old stick that had been in there, and so far no memory problems.

The other culprit seems to have been the gigabyte ethernet cards -- I guess 
the system is too old to handle that speed, because with two different cards
I kept getting lockups in ssh (or rsync over ssh). Again, I pulled all the
gigabyte cards and reverted to the on-board 100Mbit ethernet controller. So
far no lockups.

No silk purse out of this computer sow's ear, I suppose. Thanks for the help
and suggestions.

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