Re: errors in 2.2.0-pre8-ac1 and pre9 (system locking up)

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Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:52:50 +0200


In message <XFMail.990122134711.adamk@3net.net.pl> Adam Kumiszcza
writes:

>I noticed a very strange error while using 2.2.0-pre8-ac1. I've been
>using X, netscape, xfmail etc., there was a download going on by wget,
>fetchmail was working etc. -- everything of these worked ok before.
>Suddenly the load began to grow rapidly (I saw it using wmmon) but
>everything was working ok. 'top' didn't show anything suspicious. When
>the load reached over 20, no new process could have been started. X se
>rver exited after a moment. Soft watchdog didn't restart the system,
>ctrl-alt-del didn't work, and only 'SUB' (alt-sysrq-s, alt-sysrq-u,
>alt-sysrq-b) rebooted my machine.

>This error repeated twice. No kernel oops, nothing in the logs. Just
>unusable machine...

I have the same situation but with 2.2.0-pre7 on my Inet server.
Not havy loaded server for mail/news/ftp/http/etc. Usual load does not
exceed 0.1, but after ~15-30 hours the load start growing and machine
became fully unusable in several minutes. I have top running and can't
see anythimg unusual except growing load. With previous kernel 2.1.131
last uptime was 57 days without any problems.
Here my ver_linux output:
Linux irina 2.2.0-pre7 #2 Thu Jan 21 21:51:06 EET 1999 i586 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
Binutils 2.9.1.0.7
Linux C Library 5.4.46
Dynamic linker ldd: version 1.9.9
Linux C++ Library 2.8.1
Linux C++ Library 2.8.0
Procps 1.2.7
Mount 2.9g
Net-tools (1998-12-05)
Kbd 0.94
Sh-utils 1.16
Machine is IP200MMX on VIA VPX motherboard.

SY, Stanislav Voronyi.

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