Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mysterious 2.0.33 crashes | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:42:10 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Chris Evans wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jos Vos wrote: > > > FWIW (as I already told in another mail): I'm having the same type > > of problems on a system that happened to run for years without any > > unexpected crashes with 1.2.13. After upgrading to 2.0.32/33 (and > > with a complete new distribution, not based on glibc), the system > > mysteriously halts 1 or 2 times a week without _any_ message. > > Please bear in mind a point Doug has already stressed -- the 2.0 kernels > hit hardware much harder that 1.2 kernels. > > As a real data point, we had a machine running 1.2.x, and the processor > fan had stopped. It lasted two weeks of uptime. We booted on one of the > 2.0pre kernels, and invariably got 3 or 4 oopses merely on boot-up, and > that was if it didn't spontaneously reboot.
But then again, the symptoms of "stressing the hardware harder" are 99% Oopses, sig11's and filesystem corruption. There are bunches of people reporting sudden "stops".
Roger.
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