Messages in this thread | | | From | alano@summanul ... | Subject | Re: 2.3.3 Total Lock-Up | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 11:20:50 -0700 |
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> >From: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk > > >This morning I checked on Tahallah and discovered everything was > >completely locked up. > > [ ... ] > > >Matrox Millennium II 8MB graphic card > > i wonder ... which X server are you using ? > > >This is the first time that Linux has totally locked up on me in 2 years > >(should I be surprised?). I will see if it doesn't lock up again by > >tomorrow morning. I really should set up a network so I can telnet in. > > I am running 2.2.7 SMP on a dual PII-450, and I "regularly" get total > lockups. It happens to me just after a recompile of a large > application (17MB including debugging info), at the point where I tell > gdb to restart it. It happens approximately once in every 20-30 > restarts, but I also have a feeling that it occurs more often as the > machine has been up longer. > > I have been unclear whether it is X related (since, like alex, i can't > test network accessibility) or the kernel dying. > > Its certainly consistent with a file system issue; right now, I have 3 > "syncs" at the end of my makefile, and its always notable that the > first of these shuffles a lot of blocks onto the disk (not > suprisingly, having just compiled a 17MB executable).
I am getting similar behaviour with lockups, but I have identified the cause.
I have a VIA MVP3 chipset.
On my older VIA chipsets, I would get lots of error messages during boot, but nothing bad would happen. (Turning off UDMA with the -d switch in hdparm fixed the problem.) With the new chipset, whenever I write alot of data to the hard drive (by, say, installing Civ:Call to Power), the system locks up hard.
At first I thought it was an X server error. I ran into the same problem though untarring a huge file. (Same game mentioned actually...) The solution is `hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda`. (Now if I could just remember to put it into rc.d somewhere...)
As a further warning... Civ:Call to Power is a great hurking timesink and to be avoided if you want to get any code written. (It is also very hard to play on a laptop on the bus.)
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