Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:23:53 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Repeated lockups caused by ext3? |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:20:55PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For the past couple of months I have been getting repeated lockups using > 2.4 kernels; 2.4.17 at present. They always occur when I'm on line and > downloading, never at other times, and never on kernel 2.2.20. No > particular process seems to cause it. When it happens, all keys are > inoperative, the modem stops working, and the hard disk light is > permanently on. > > They never occur on my laptop, using kernel 2.4.17. > > They began to occur at about 2.4.10. I kept attributing them to VM > issues and fiddled with all sorts of things in the BIOS, without > result. > > However, I've now found that they don't occur if I don't use ext3. This > therefore seems to be the answer in my case. Is this a known issue, and > is there any way of getting ext3 to work? > > For the record: Processor is Intel Coppermine 600Mhz; 192M memory. > Not using hdparm.
Oh dear.. uniprocessor ? I get SMP machine to hang when writing 1+ GB file to EXT3 on RAID-1, and having more than 512 MB memory...
> Anthony > -- > Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) > For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical > essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/
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