Re: 2.1.42 lockup (again)

Michel Eyckmans (mce@tornado.be)
Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:28:35 +0200


> Just a question, what is 'taper`.

Taper is indeed a backup program, but I do know about not backing up
/proc, /dev, and several others (such as the file it's making, thank you.

> Last time I used taper, it did this to me on a 50M partition with
> a known stable kernel. I don't think it does memory management correctly.

Possible. But even then it shouldn't hang the kernel.

Anyway, here's the continuation:

+ the second time round the same operation succeeded without problems.

+ I just had yet another hang. No taper this time: I was downloading
my mail, reading news with xrn and just started... netscape.

Looks like there still are problems...

MCE

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