On 19-Sep-97 "Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
>> Before the real 2.0.31 is released, I would like to share
>> my own experience with the prepatches. So far I have found
>> that:
>> - Prepatch 2 is the most reliable/stable.
>> - Prepatch 5 & 9 is not stable for my hardware.
>>
>> Symptom:
>> - Total lock up during heavy load & swapping.
>> - no log in syslogs.
>
> Hmmm ... IMHO this is not a SMP related problem .. please try the appended
> patch.
I'm also experiencing total lock up, but only when all RAM and swap are used.
I tried a simple test 'grep xyzzy /dev/zero' but it didn't induce the problem
again.
Has this patch been applied to pre10, which I'm currently using?
Incidentally, should /dev/zero be mode 666? root:root?
Dave
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