Re: Mysterious lockups in 2.2.9.

Mircea Damian (dmircea@pop3.kappa.ro)
Fri, 28 May 1999 18:57:32 +0300

On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:18:28PM +0200, Brian Schau wrote:
> "Niall R. Murphy" wrote:
> >
> > Brian, all,
> >
> > Yes, I sometimes see these too.
> >
>
> Hi Niall,
>
>
> Join the club. I suspect the scsi-layer to be the culprit. It's the
> only difference between my 2.2.9-machine (pure-scsi) at home and my
> 2.2.9-machine (pure-ide) at work.

I subscribe to this theory. I have here a P200 machine that locked twice this week with 2.2.9
The only difference between this machine and all others that are running 2.2.9 is the SCSI
adapter: AIC7xxx.

> Anyway, it propably isn't the scsi-layer but I can't relate to the
> heavy-load theory - my machine didn't do any heavy stuff when it locked
> ;o)

My machine is a web server not very loaded.

-- 
Mircea Damian
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