I have noticed something quite strange regarding the stability of the kernel
on the 2.1.96 kernel.
I have beat the crap out of this kernel and haven't had even one oops, crash,
lock, etc. until recently. I had the opportunity to try out a dynamic ip
address hosting from a site (30 days) and thought it would be cool to login
and check my mail. Well here's were the fun started.
Logged in, looked around, and then 'fetchmail -a'. I thought, pretty
harmless. Well I was wrong. I had to come home and reboot cause the system
was frozen solid and the ppp link was also locked. I was running X windows
at the time, but I haven't tried this without X to see if it is causing the
problem.
One other strange thing. My machine will serve http and ftp just fine, but
once that damn telnet connection starts up a process, POW>.
I am available for more tests that anyone wants to do.
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