> I installed 2.1.55 yesterday night and had it running for about 18
> hours. I came back today after work and found my computer virtually
> locked up. The only thing I could do was switch between virtual
> terminals with ATL-F?. Any other keys gave no response.
Does that include the Alt-SysRq functionality - eg. Alt-SysRq-Space brings
up a list of options?
If it happens again and Alt-SysRq does work, press Alt-SysRq-T to show a
task list - the thirld column should be mainly filled with S, however one
task, at least, will have an R next to it. That is that task that is
causing problems.
There is/was a problem which caused the same symptoms in the networking
code which seemed to be trigged by sending large fragmented packets when
there were no big memory blocks left. I haven't experienced it within the
past couple of kernel revisions, though.
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