Re: Constant hangs with 2.0.31pre9

Boris Seifert (boris@goliath.de)
Sun, 21 Sep 1997 00:40:59 +0200

On Sep 20, 13:07, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> Subject: Re: Constant hangs with 2.0.31pre9
>
> > i'm afraid i have to report severe problems with 2.0.31pre9.
> > in three days of useing it, i have experienced at least 6
> > complete random freezes. No ping from outside was answered.
> > Keyborad/mouse were dead.
> > Nothing in the logs either.
>
> What kind of hardware are you using? (It wouldn't happen to include
a
> heavily-used Adaptec SCSI card, would it?) Do the freezes occur when
> the system is idle or loaded? How much RAM? etc etc etc...

There was no pattern detectable in the crashes, one time it crashed at
very high load, the next time, when the system was almost idle.
In all cases it was hooked to the internet via modem/ppp, with multiple
telnet and/or ftp sessions going. In most cases X was running.

System:

P 200 MMX w 48 MB FP-DRAM
Gigabyte GA-586 HX MoBo Rev 1.56-DE
Matrox Mystique 4 MB
2 Seagate ST 52520A Drives on MoBo's onboard Busmaster EIDE Interface
1 IBM 12x ATAPI CDROM
Parallel ZIP Drive
SB 16 PnP
Conner Travan 1 Ftape streamer

Software:

Linux Based on RedHat 4.2, but almost everything is updated to current
versions.
AcceleratedX 3.1

Boris