Re: Complete freeze if high traffic on standard serial line onia32?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 09:06:40 EST


> I can reliably (6 times in one hour) freeze completely (Scroll lock/Caps lock
> flashing together, mouse frozen in X) my PC (AMD sempron on MSI K8MM3-V K8M800
> Socket 754) by doing an FTP using a standard modem connected on the serial port
> of the motherboard, and a bit of browsing (i.e. machine not loaded).
> That happens on standard Fedora 7 kernel and on the latest 23-rc1 kernel, and
> doesn't happen on a Puppy Linux 2.17 bootable CDROM.

Can you get this to happen outside of X at all (eg if you do a yum update
and pull in packages over the modem for a while with 2.6.23-rc1 does it
die). Just trying to work out what has become unstable.

Also worth trying to see if browsing web type stuff off a CD or local
files triggers it without the network link.
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