Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:23:04 +0100 | From | Adam Sampson <> | Subject | Re: test9-pre7 |
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:29:40PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Unfortunately it still dies occationally. sysrq-Boot is the only thing > that work, > I have no more data as it happened in X and console switching didn't > work. > > Exactly the same behavior as VM crashes in test9-pre5 and earlier. > This is a UP machine with an ide drive, 128M ram and 96M swap. > The (memory) load was light when it crashed during a disk write, > although there were perhaps 20k in swap from some mozilla use > earlier.
Exactly the same here. I've seen the same crash three times today (not having suffered from mysterious crashes here):
- I do something (typically starting a program; the one I've just seen started this behaviour just as icecast started its extra threads)
- The hard disk starts grinding (as if I were going deeply into swap), and my X session freezes
- Hitting alt-sysrq-u might work if I'm lucky, but normally only alt-sysrq-b is available
However, I'm probably not a useful datapoint, as I'm running 2.4.0-test8 + reiserfs-3.9.16 + 2.4.0-t8-sched + 2.4.0-t8-vmpatch4. The machine's a K6-2 450MHz with 160Mb of RAM, a few IDE disks and an NE2000 card, running XFree86 v4.0.1.
Previous 2.4.0-test kernels have been rock solid for me, which is probably a good sign.
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Adam Sampson ats1@ukc.ac.uk, azz@gnu.org
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