Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. > > > It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one > > (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as > > secondary master; i440BX). > M

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. > It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one > (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as > secondary master; i440BX). -- =

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Toscano
well, i hate to be piling on here, but i just encountered this (i think it's this) this morning. i was printing a 145+m file (to /dev/lp0) from an ide drive and it locked up. just before the lockup, i noticed it was very sluggish, as if it were under very heavy load (which is really wasn't). th

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread ferret
Can you tell us what controller chipset you have (output of lspci should be fine) and if your hard drive has DMA or uDMA enabled? There have been a few other reports of oopsen and fs corruption during periods of high interrupt activity. Mine seems to occur whenever I saturate my local network wi

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 17:43, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity > > in test12? > > > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in > test12-pre8 and test12. They

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity > in test12? > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape. test12-pre7 seems to be stable. --

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I spoke too soon. It did it again while I was in X. Fetchmail/sendmail was doing mail stuff. The two were also running the other times also so its possible that this could be the trigger. "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from > co

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from completely clean sources and tried this again and no problems. I'm just gonna put this down as a fluke unless someone else someone else sees it or I lockup again. The only problem I have now is unresolved symbols in some scs

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
If anyone is interested, this is what I am doing before it blows up everytime... sudo tar zxfv ~mhaque/linux-2.4.0-test5.tar.gz cd linux cat ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test? ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test1? | sudo patch -p1 sudo make mrproper sudo cp ~/kernel-config .config sudo

2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Hey guys, Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity in test12? I was able to grab the tail end of an oops. Probably not too usefull. Code: 89 42 04 89 10 b8 01 00 00 00 07 43 04 00 00 00 00 c7 03 00 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the