- Marcelo
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Morton wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having some stability problems with 2.2.11.
> I have a DPT SmartRaid IV (PM3334UW)
> SMP (dual 400's on a 100mgz bus)
>
> I was running RH 5.0 and a kernel from the 2.0 series (not sure which
> one)
> which had an excellent track record. I just upgraded to RH 6 and
> compiled
> the 2.2.11 kernel, to better use the SMP capabilities.
>
> While compiling that kernel, I started getting ext2 errors, and on
> reboot it had to
> rebuild the drive. A few days later, the system load went through the
> roof
> (around 50 before the system went completely unusable) and there were
> more
> errors on reboot, even though I did succeed in shuting down properly.
> Then, a few days later, (Sunday) I walked in to find error message
> like:
>
> Out of memory for sendmail.
>
> Out of memory for mingetty.
>
> and so on...
>
> Those crashes were using the recommended EATA/PCI driver. I just
> recompiled to use
> the EATA_DMA driver to see what happens.
>
> Does anyone have any comments on this situation? Let me know if I can
> provide any more
> information.
>
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