Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:02:45 +1000 | From | Gordon Smith <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.9+ extreme instability |
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I've had this problem. The system would freeze solidly after three or four days requiring a power cycle to get it up again. I too suspected hardware since an identical system had been up for over three months on 2.2.6. It's now four weeks since I moved to 2.2.10ac8 - not a hint of trouble.
Gordon
On Sun, Aug 01, 03:06PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Matthew Vanecek wrote: > > > To date, there has been no solution offered that I've seen. Might be > > because the crashes leave absolutely no way to gather information about > > why it crashed, nor do the logs ever say anything. We just walk in to > > find a locked up machine, or we sit watching incredulously helpless, as > > the machine spirals down to a dead state. > > The solution to this sort of problem tends to appear once similar reports > show a common element. Have the -ac kernels been tried on this problem > setup? Several corruption bugs were spotted in the series and are fixed > in the 2.2.11 prepatches. If the problem still isn't fixed, comparing > kernel config options against two similar machines may be of immense > value -- options like quota being used can sometimes have a significant > impact on normal codes.
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