Re: 2.1.85: Froze seven times in a row :-(

Matthew Harrell (mharrell@std.saic.com)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:35:31 -0500 (EST)


: That is, it froze seven times in an hour, and I had to reset the machine
: manually. Most of the intervening time was taken up in fsck. (Big
: disk). Two of the freezes happened during boot-time fscks. Two
: happened while I was online.
: Before this, it had been running for about 22 hours fine, lots of disk
: activity (though not heavy activity), lots of online stuff.
:

I also had mine freeze up three times in quick succession (or as quick as
it could be after fsck'ing all the partitions) but it ran fine for a day
before that and a day after that.

: I should add that this is compiled with GCC 2.8.0. However all earlier
: kernels I tried (including several 2.1.x that crashed like this) were
: compiled with GCC 2.7.2.3.

Mine's compiled with egcs 1.0.1. My system's also different in that it's a
dual Pentium 200 with a 2940 controller.

: All the recent freezes happened during disk activity, while I was here.
: I can be reasonably certain the disk has something to do with it.

The first happened during a kernel compile, then next two right after the
system had come up again. It's been fine since then but no messages at
all were printed out about why it froze.

-- 
  Matthew Harrell                          May the bluebird of happiness
  Simulation Technology Division, SAIC      twiddle your bits.
  mharrell@std.saic.com
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