Re: Linux behaviour in low memory situations.

Henrik Storner (storner@image.dk)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:33:58 +0200


John Kodis <kodis@jagunet.com>:

>I've had 2.1.109 freeze up solid 3 times yesterday, usually after
>running for an hour or so. No response to Sysreq, nothing in the
>logs, nothing special happening at the time. On the same hardware
>2.0.32 has never done this. Sorry there's not more to report.

>AMD K6, 32M, FIC MB w/ VP2 chipset;
>IDE disk, floptical, CD; PAS16, PCI-NE2K.

Interesting. My hardware configuration is somewhat similar, but
2.1.109 is pretty solid here - and i've done some heavy-duty compiles
recently, working on a danish/swedish translation of RedHat 5.1.
AMD K6, 64 MB, FIC MB w/ VP2 chipset. BUT: SCSI disk, CD (ncr53c8xx
controller with the BSD driver), SB sound card (not used much),
no LAN.

Kind of points in the direction of IDE, PAS16 or the pci-ne2k drivers.

-- 
Henrik Storner  |  "testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, 
                |   if it boots up it is perfect."
                |                                    Linus Torvalds

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