New blog post: "The RAM Nightmare: How I Lost My Sanity (and Almost My Deadline)": https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1117/the-ram-nightmare-how-i-lost-my-sanity-and-almost-my-deadline
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@davidrevoy OMG, yes, this kind of failure is just crazy-making, when many things crash, and the system just seems unstable... I had that happen last October. It started with occasional Firefox crashes, and then at some point, I got build failures for Inkscape, which I thought were Inkscape-related. Asked our devs, and they had never seen that kind of error, so I thought it could be the RAM - and it was. Used memtest, too. Unfortunately, it was the built-in non-replaceable RAM that was broken.
@Moini Exactly, now you mention it; I saw a tab or two crashed on Firefox on Sunday evening. I thought: maybe the code from Youtube or Protonmail and a bad Firefox version, this will pass. But now I'm thinking, it was already little signs about the RAM going more and more defective.
@davidrevoy
Je soupçonne un vieillissement prématuré par la position proche du processeur et une difficulté à refroidir dans cette position.
@marnic Bien vue. Oui, elle était bien sur le slot A. Je vais aller lire la doc de la carte mère pour voir si il y a moyen que je décalle tout sur le slot B,C,D et libérer un peu de distance.