I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely under
normal circumstances.
But I made a mistake in a crontab and I had 60 instances of a backup
script starting one per minute, all of them wishing to create the same
.tar.gz into a samba mounted share.
This crazy situation had the server freeze solid, with only cold boot as
remedy.
No matter what stupid things I do on it, I shouldn't be able to take the
kernel down, right?
After I replaced the Realtek with a 3com, I could see all of the 60
instances fighting like worms in shit, but the server survived.
Kernel 2.4.5 compiled with Red Hat gcc 2.96-81. With kgcc, it was
acting the same way.
Please CC me.
Thank you.
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