Hi all,
i'm experiencing a very annoying problem with the server that is the
file server for my company ( i'm trying to make them believe in Linux
but some people are starting to laugh :-( )
It's an AMD K6-2 400 on an epox motherboard, 128MB RAM , IBM IDE HDD ,
AHA 2940 SCSCI card on which i've plugged a IOMEGA JAZ and an intel
ehterexpress pro 100 NIC card.
since the beginnig ( kernel 2.2.x ) i've been experiencing a lot of
random system hangs ( no messages on the console or in the log files ).
The only way after such a hang is to do a hard reset.
I know some other people have been experiencing the problem and i've
also seen on kernel traffic ( http://www.kt.opensrc.org/ ) that Alan Cox
found some interesting problems in the inode_truncate functions.
>From the 2.2.10 patch, it seems that some changes have been made to
this
part of the kernel but for me, it made things WORSE: i had two hangs in
less than 24h while before ( kernel 2.2.9 and below ) the system could
stay up for a few days.
I've been running the same kernels on different systems and never had
the problem. It seems to be really specific to this machine.
It is sometime loaded ( a few users, a CVS server, a samba server for 8
Windoze machines, and an http server running mod_jserv and mod_ssl )
If you need more information regarding my configuration, please feel
free to email me, i'll be happy to help pinpoint the problem !
Thansk for your help/advices
-- Charles-Edouard Ruault
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Hi all,
i'm experiencing a very annoying problem with the server that is the
file server for my company ( i'm trying to make them believe in Linux
but some people are starting to laugh :-( )It's an AMD K6-2 400 on an epox motherboard, 128MB RAM , IBM IDE HDD ,
AHA 2940 SCSCI card on which i've plugged a IOMEGA JAZ and an intel
ehterexpress pro 100 NIC card.since the beginnig ( kernel 2.2.x ) i've been experiencing a lot of
random system hangs ( no messages on the console or in the log files ).
The only way after such a hang is to do a hard reset.
I know some other people have been experiencing the problem and i've
also seen on kernel traffic ( http://www.kt.opensrc.org/ ) that Alan Cox
found some interesting problems in the inode_truncate functions.
>From the 2.2.10 patch, it seems that some changes have been made to this
part of the kernel but for me, it made things WORSE: i had two hangs in
less than 24h while before ( kernel 2.2.9 and below ) the system could
stay up for a few days.I've been running the same kernels on different systems and never had
the problem. It seems to be really specific to this machine.
It is sometime loaded ( a few users, a CVS server, a samba server for 8
Windoze machines, and an http server running mod_jserv and mod_ssl )If you need more information regarding my configuration, please feel
free to email me, i'll be happy to help pinpoint the problem !Thansk for your help/advices
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