Re: Strange 2.2.X hard hang....

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:35:11 +0100 (BST)


> 1) LILO loads kernel, kernel starts decompressing, and quickly hangs
> with "Out of Memory" ... some kernels that I build just always fail like
> this, some kernels that I build happen to get past decompression without
> problems.... I can't see any obvious pattern to which ones have this
> problem

There is a patch for this (it uses gzip -3 not gzip -9 to avoid running
out of boot workspace). That will make the rest of life easier.

> way up. However, I get the same random hangs as the redhat 2.2.5-22
> kernel, but they are _much_ more frequent (can't go much more than 15
> minutes without it happening).

Thats good in some ways. It means its easier to debug 8)

> 2.3.18 doesn't step on it as bad as 2.2.5-22, which doesn't step on it
> as bad as 2.2.12/13pre..... I don't know... I'm lost :)
> Any help?

There is a patch called "ikd" which is designed to help trace this sort of
lock up.

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