Re: Crash Recovery Problems (fwd)

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:04:47 +0000

zap@onyx.tarpon.net said:
> [...] doing just about anything meaningful with it (i.e., using it as a
> backup device for the scsi drive) drives the system load average up
> to 1.5 or 2.0 and generates a message like 'Couldn't get a Free Page'

I had a similar problem with the 2.0.30 kernel on my alpha. I managed to get
through a dump by going to single user mode. I suspect that the network
cards were part of the trouble, and in single user mode the networking
is shut off.

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Steve Williams
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