[GTALUG] DRAM Issues

[Michael Galea]

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

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Michael Galea