I was running RH 5.0 and a kernel from the 2.0 series (not sure which
one)
which had an excellent track record. I just upgraded to RH 6 and
compiled
the 2.2.11 kernel, to better use the SMP capabilities.
While compiling that kernel, I started getting ext2 errors, and on
reboot it had to
rebuild the drive. A few days later, the system load went through the
roof
(around 50 before the system went completely unusable) and there were
more
errors on reboot, even though I did succeed in shuting down properly.
Then, a few days later, (Sunday) I walked in to find error message
like:
Out of memory for sendmail.
Out of memory for mingetty.
and so on...
Those crashes were using the recommended EATA/PCI driver. I just
recompiled to use
the EATA_DMA driver to see what happens.
Does anyone have any comments on this situation? Let me know if I can
provide any more
information.
Please CC me ( mortonda@osprey.net ) with any replies. Thanks!
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