Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:41:09 -0500 (CDT) | From | David Weis <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule() |
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I am running 2.2.16 unpatched on a PII-450 with 512 megs of memory. The > > disk controller is a Mylex DAC960. Recently the machine seems to be > > locking up under moderate load. I wanted to see what was causing it, and > > running setiathome seems to be a pretty good trigger for it. Using > > control-scroll lock showed that the seti process, along with any new > > processes I tried to start ended up as deadlocked. > > Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an > updated DAC960 driver
That fixed it partly. I'm still getting lots of uninterruptible processes, but it lasted a few hours this time before getting bad. The freeze is still occurring in schedule().
Any other advice?
dave
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