Re: 2.2.8 dies.....

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Mon, 17 May 1999 11:36:07 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 17 May 1999, Mofeed Shahin wrote:

>
> G'day all,
>
> I am trouble with 2.2.8 (UP), on my P75 with 40 Meg RAM. After a couple of
> hours, depending on how busy it is, many processes start going into 'D'
> state. It seems to be only new processes that are going into 'D' State.
> Also the system is running rather low on memory (about 900k). I can't log
> onto this machine anymore, but I can ping it. I can't even shutdown
> because 'shutdown' goes into 'D' state.
>

I am seeing the same thing on 2.2.7 with heavy network activity. 2.2.5 is
the last kernel I have used that actually works under heavy network
traffic but did not try 2.2.6. By heavy network traffic I mean a lot of
short connections ... like a busyt web server would have.

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