Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: System lockup. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Oct 2002 12:30:18 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 01:02, Bill Leckey wrote: > I have a terminal server that's supporting up to 240 lines. It's a > 2.4.17 kernel, and is running squid, and using the reiser file system to > store log files, squid cache and other data. About every day or so, the > machine locks up. The screen is blank, keyboard doesn't respond, the > serial console I set up shows no 'dying gasp' and there is nothing in > any of the system logs. > > This doesn't appear to be related to load as it has happened both during > the busiest times and during the low times. > > I'm still servicing interrupts from our serial devices (on IRQ 11), so > it seems interrupts are still happening. > > Beyond this, however, I have no idea where to go from here. If anyone > has any hints on what the problem might be, or even a way to gather more > information, I would be grateful.
Hardware details would be a useful starting point. Also if its uniprocessor or SMP. Finally have you considered 2.4.19 as 2.4.17 does have at least one known and fixed small PPP race. With 240 lines I guess you might actually hit that
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