I had a crash similar to those many people have been reporting
from pre-patch-2.1.37 onward; high network activity followed by
total lockup.
I also noted several minutes before that "update" had gone into
the "D" state when viewed with ps, thus elevating the load
[no, not the same load elevation as in pre.37].
System is P100 uniprocessor with attached [fairly minimal]
configuration. I usually use modularized drivers for other things,
but they weren't loaded at the time of the crash. Vanilla 2.1.40
with the exception of the pentium memcpy patch.
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_M586_COPY=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_NE2000=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
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