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SubjectWidespread heat (Was: 2.2.9+ extreme instability)

Also, note that there has been a severe heat wave in the central and
eastern U.S. for about a week and a half now, putting the daily high
temperature above 100 Fahrenheit / 40 Celsius for large areas of the
midwest and plains. I had a perfectly good machine with a well worn
kernel start crashing every afternoon as the sun began to beat down
through the windows on the west side of my room. The symptoms on my
system were Oopsen stating an attempt to kill the idle task and that old
classic, "Aiee, killing the interrupt handler." Anyone else having this
problem in a hot environment should look into their cooling systems before
they look into the kernel. Opening up the case and aiming a floor fan in
there worked for me. I don't know how the weather's been in Europe or
Asia, possibly to similar effect. Must be nice down on the south side
about now.

-Nate

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gordon Smith wrote:

> I've had this problem. The system would freeze solidly after three or
> four days requiring a power cycle to get it up again. I too suspected
> hardware since an identical system had been up for over three months on
> 2.2.6. It's now four weeks since I moved to 2.2.10ac8 - not a hint of
> trouble.
>
> Gordon
>
> On Sun, Aug 01, 03:06PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> >
> > > To date, there has been no solution offered that I've seen. Might be
> > > because the crashes leave absolutely no way to gather information about
> > > why it crashed, nor do the logs ever say anything. We just walk in to
> > > find a locked up machine, or we sit watching incredulously helpless, as
> > > the machine spirals down to a dead state.
> >
> > The solution to this sort of problem tends to appear once similar reports
> > show a common element. Have the -ac kernels been tried on this problem
> > setup? Several corruption bugs were spotted in the series and are fixed
> > in the 2.2.11 prepatches. If the problem still isn't fixed, comparing
> > kernel config options against two similar machines may be of immense
> > value -- options like quota being used can sometimes have a significant
> > impact on normal codes.
>
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