Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:43:23 +0200 | From | Lars Roland <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours |
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On 7/12/05, Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm> wrote: > As background, we've been using a relatively old kernel (2.6.4-mm2) on some > IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM, umem cards, and serveraid storage. These > machines are under continuous heavy-ish load, load avg between about 1 and > 5, with between 2500-3500 procs at all times, with several largish ReiserFS > partitions and have been running *really* well with >250 days uptime on one > machine. > > We recently tried upgrading one of the machines to the latest kernel > (2.6.12.2) and it's died after about 24 hours. It seemed to end up in some > weird state where we could ssh into it, and some commands worked (eg uptime) > but process list related commands (ps) would just freeze up into an > unkillable state and we'd have to close the seesion and ssh in again.
I experienced the exact same thing on a IBM 335 - in my case I had messed up with the ACPI setup. Could you paste the output from /proc/interupts also is your kernel running with IRQ balancing ?.
Regards.
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