I had the same thing happen to me on pre-2.0.31-7 after a couple of
hours of uptime...
I was using the full text search engine called `Isearch' to re-index the
Linux kernel tree. I allowed it to use 20 megabytes of ram from my 32
meg machine. It apparently got MORE greedy than that and caused heavy
swapping. I switched virtual consoles to see a `ps' to see how much ram
that is was taking and the getty on the NEW VC said `re-spawning too fast
waiting for 10 minutes.' or something to that effect... I then killed
the re-index process. Everything appeared to be working just fine. I
then `startx' and went on doing other work. ...after about 10 minutes
rxvt quit receiving keystrokes and tkRat (my mailer) didn't receive
keystrokes. I managed to kill all of my sessions (with the mouse) and
stopped fvwm. I used control-alt-delete successfully to reboot the
system.
BTW: This happened to me before on 2.0.30.
BTW^2: telnetting into the machine worked JUST FINE.
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On 23 Aug, Marcus Berglund wrote:
> I am runing kernel pre-2.0.31-7, and after 2 days uptime I got this
> message:
>
> Aug 23 00:14:57 mabs kernel: hdg: media changed
> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: disabled DMA
> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Aug 23 00:48:40 mabs kernel: hdg: media changed
>
> And from there on my keyboard stopped working.
>
> Below is my HDD bootup info if anyone is interested:
>
> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007
> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f
> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, 1222MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA
> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: hdc: st3144AT, 124MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=1001/15/17
>
> I have:
> iP200
> 24Mb RAM, 98Mb Swap
> Giga-byte GA-586ATM/P M/B
> sda is a 1GB SCSI HDD
>
> P.S. This may have been a spike, but my computer is _very_ spike
> protected, but if beyond resonable doubt, it probably will be...
>
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