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SubjectRe: System lockup.
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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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