> > There seem to be several reports of reiserfs falling over when memory is
> > low. It seems to be undetermined if this problem is actually reiserfs
or MM
> > related, but there are other threads on this list regarding similar
issues.
> > This would explain why the same disk would work on a different machine
with
> > more memory. Any chance you could add memory to the box temporarily
just to
> > see if it helps, this may help prove if this is the problem or not.
> >
>
> Out of all the old 72 pin simms we have, we have it maxed out at 48 MB's.
I'm
> tempted to take the 2 drives out and put them in the k6-2, but that's too
much
> of a hassle. I'm currently going to try 2.4.1-ac19 and see what happens.
>
> The machine does have 128MB of swap space working, and whenever I've
checked
> memory usage (while the system was still responding), it never went over a
> couple megs of swap space used.
Ah yes, but, from what I've read, the problem seems to occur when
buffer/cache memory is low (<6MB), you could have tons of swap and still
reach this level.
Later,
Tom
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