Messages in this thread | | | From | <> | Subject | Re: We're crashing too - 2.0.33 w/ 2.0.34pre2 patches | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:05:21 +0200 (CEST) |
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> > I'd like to add my voice to the half a dozen or so people reporting > strange system crashes with 2.0.33. Our system has died three times in the > past week since "upgrading" to Redhat 5.0 and kernel 2.0.33. Two times it > has died giving me the Black Screen of Death, nothing in the logs or on > the console, no weird processes were running at the time of the crash. The > other time it did reboot, but still nothing in the logs on or the = > console.=20 > After the first crash, I applied Alan Cox's 2.0.34pre2 patch and > recompiled the kernel, but it hasn't seemed to help any. I was initially > suspecting something in cron was causing the crashes since the first two > occured at 10:40AM on Monday (either that or my server simply doesn't like > Monday mornings, which I can totally sympathize with...) but the only > weekly cron job I have is the makewhatis script, which runs fine.
Yet another data point here. Under 2.0.33, my machine died after four to eight hours of uptime. Sometimes with a real oops, but at least twice it was just locked up completely. After upgrading to 2.0.34-pre2, I have had no more problems.
Crashes occurred consistently when there was absolutely _no_ activity on my box (no cron jobs running, users having been absent for more than an hour, no non-sleeping processes), except for kflushd/kswapd. The times I could still do a ps -aux, it seemed that my box crashed when one of these two was running (I do not remember which one, regrettably). It died, too.
I had at the time no internet access, so I could not report the oopses. I suspect they are still somewhere in my backlogs, so if anyone is interested I could send them.
Hoping this may be useful, Frodo
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