Re: Mysterious 2.0.33 lockups

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:47:37 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Joe Konopka wrote:
> > > Did you try the right-alt + scroll-lock thing when it locked up?
> > Yes, tried that. No response at all.
>
> Sounds like hardware, is there anything you can swap out for a different
> type, e.g. ethernet card or scsi controller? It is still possible theres a
> bug in the kernel, and swapping hardware might give a clue into perhaps a
> buggy driver.

Sounds like memory fragmentation :-(
I really should do something about that. My new
patch (for 2.1.85) works quite well, I've been
banging at 2.1.85+mmap-age for almost two weeks
now, and it's still running...

Rik.
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