On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 03:33:33 AM -0800 David <david@blue-labs.org>
wrote:
> Kevin Turner wrote:
>
>> Version:
>> Linux version 2.4.1-pre12 (gcc version 2.95.3 20010125 (prerelease))
>>
>> Possible suspect players:
>> dpkg seems to trigger the bug
>> ReiserFS is the partition that doesn't sync
>> binfmt_misc shows up in the call traces.
>>
>> Symptoms:
>>
>> The system assumes glacial speeds. If you're *lucky*, you'll see one
>> widget re-paint in X before the next ice age. Ctrl-alt-delete is
>> unresponsive, as are attempts to start proccesses via the network or
>> joystick port. Keypresses to programs such as getty are not echoed.
>> All program output to console and network is stopped dead. If you leave
>> for a several-hour-long coffee break and come back to it, there's still
>> no evidence that you banged on the keyboard.
>
>
> Wild shot in the dark....I'd lay odds that you had about 6-7 Megs free in
> your buffers/cache line, yes?
>
David, have any of Rik's patches helped here?
-chris
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