Re: 2.2.0 generally flaky

Christof Damian (damian@mediaconsult.com)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:08:02 +0000

Marc Lehmann wrote:
>
> I reported that linux just halts when the memory is full around 2.1.106 or
> so. I was then told that this is a known bug when memory overcommitment is
> enabled, so I disabled it.
>
> Things then went fine until about 2.1.132, when I noticed that a simple
> "make -j2" (building egcs or gimp for example) has a 30% chance of killing
> the system.
>
> The symptoms are:
>
> 1. the mousecursor (X) stops. The keyboard leds still work
>
> the next thing I do is either Magic-SysRq-Sync+Unmount or Ctrl-AltBackspace,
> to get out of X (which shows that something happens, i.e. the windows unmap).
>
> 2. the machine is then dead.
> 3. totally dead (no disk/led/screen activity)

> BTW, I can NOT reliably reproduce this, but it happens about once per 10 hours
> (sometimes directly after rebooting, though)
>
> My system;
> MB ASUS P2L97 DS (SMP 2 CPU + adaptec AIC-7880)
> 192MB ram, no swap, no memory overcommitment

i have about the same symptons, i walways thought it was because of bad
ram, though memtest never found errors.

my system:
Tyan Tomcat SMP 2*P200
AHA2940UW
192MB ram, swap (not used)

christof

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