Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.3 Total Lock-Up | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 08:15:19 -0400 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>From: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk
>This morning I checked on Tahallah and discovered everything was >completely locked up.
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>Matrox Millennium II 8MB graphic card
i wonder ... which X server are you using ?
>This is the first time that Linux has totally locked up on me in 2 years >(should I be surprised?). I will see if it doesn't lock up again by >tomorrow morning. I really should set up a network so I can telnet in.
I am running 2.2.7 SMP on a dual PII-450, and I "regularly" get total lockups. It happens to me just after a recompile of a large application (17MB including debugging info), at the point where I tell gdb to restart it. It happens approximately once in every 20-30 restarts, but I also have a feeling that it occurs more often as the machine has been up longer.
I have been unclear whether it is X related (since, like alex, i can't test network accessibility) or the kernel dying.
Its certainly consistent with a file system issue; right now, I have 3 "syncs" at the end of my makefile, and its always notable that the first of these shuffles a lot of blocks onto the disk (not suprisingly, having just compiled a 17MB executable).
--p
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