Thanks a lot for your contribution !
well now that you mention it, if i remember well, it seems that i started getting
this behaviour after installing the aha2940 ....
but the freeze also happens when the SCSI is not sollicited since the only device
plugged on the SCSI is the JAZ and i don't use it that much.
Last hang i had on 2.2.10 was when i was accessing the JAZ ... ( creating a big
tar.gz on it ) but i also had it without playing with SCSI.
If most of the people experiencing this behaviour have this card then we might
have a clue ....
Ward Vandewege wrote:
> At 22:49 15/06/99 +0000, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Same thing here. My hardware is the following: PII-350, 128MB RAM, Dual IDE
> Samsung 6.4GB HDD, AHA 2940 SCSI card (only used for my cdroms, scanner,
> SyJet), ISA ne2000 clone and PCI ne2000 clone.
> As you can see the only thing that matches with Charles-Edouard's setup is the
> AHA 2940 SCSI card. Am I dreaming or was there an AHA2940 in every machine
> mentioned on this list that has this behaviour?
>
> The Linux box is a smb fileserver also acting as gateway/firewall for an
> internet connection, masquerading the internal network.
>
> I can reproduce the hangs, that seem to occur when there is a lot of
> network/disk traffic. When machines behind the firewall use a windows file
> synchronization utility, comparing files between the Samba share on the Linux
> server and the local disk, the Linux server freezes after a 20-30 seconds. No
> messages anywhere, nothing in the logs, alt-sysrq doesn't do anything anymore.
>
> It has happened too when someone started ftp-ing a big file (10+MB) at high
> speed (100+ Kb) through the firewall, or even at random, mostly in X sessions
> on the firewall.
>
> I have seen this behaviour with stock 2.2.7, 2.2.9 and 2.2.10. I have tried
> reproducing it with 2.2.5-22 (the latest RedHat 6.0 kernel update), but could
> NOT. That kernel seems to behave properly.
>
> Hope this helps - if you need more info please let me know.
>
> Ward.
-- Charles-Edouard Ruault
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Thanks a lot for your contribution !
well now that you mention it, if i remember well, it seems that i started getting this behaviour after installing the aha2940 ....
but the freeze also happens when the SCSI is not sollicited since the only device plugged on the SCSI is the JAZ and i don't use it that much.
Last hang i had on 2.2.10 was when i was accessing the JAZ ... ( creating a big tar.gz on it ) but i also had it without playing with SCSI.
If most of the people experiencing this behaviour have this card then we might have a clue ....
Ward Vandewege wrote:
At 22:49 15/06/99 +0000, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:
>
> 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.Same thing here. My hardware is the following: PII-350, 128MB RAM, Dual IDE
Samsung 6.4GB HDD, AHA 2940 SCSI card (only used for my cdroms, scanner,
SyJet), ISA ne2000 clone and PCI ne2000 clone.
As you can see the only thing that matches with Charles-Edouard's setup is the
AHA 2940 SCSI card. Am I dreaming or was there an AHA2940 in every machine
mentioned on this list that has this behaviour?The Linux box is a smb fileserver also acting as gateway/firewall for an
internet connection, masquerading the internal network.I can reproduce the hangs, that seem to occur when there is a lot of
network/disk traffic. When machines behind the firewall use a windows file
synchronization utility, comparing files between the Samba share on the Linux
server and the local disk, the Linux server freezes after a 20-30 seconds. No
messages anywhere, nothing in the logs, alt-sysrq doesn't do anything anymore.It has happened too when someone started ftp-ing a big file (10+MB) at high
speed (100+ Kb) through the firewall, or even at random, mostly in X sessions
on the firewall.I have seen this behaviour with stock 2.2.7, 2.2.9 and 2.2.10. I have tried
reproducing it with 2.2.5-22 (the latest RedHat 6.0 kernel update), but could
NOT. That kernel seems to behave properly.Hope this helps - if you need more info please let me know.
Ward.
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