Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-28 Thread Vasco Figueira
Hi all, On Fri May 11 2001 - 13:45:24 EST, Vincent Stemen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >On Wednesday 09 May 2001 22:57, Jacky Liu wrote: >> The machine has been randomly lockup (totally freeze) for number of >> times without any traceable clue or error message. Usually the time >> frame betw

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 02:13, Jacky Liu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Mark, I got your point about the dma/udma stuffs. My hdparm setting is > UDMA w/ MultiSector 16.. > > I had recompiled my kernel and disabled the FB option but my linux box > still hanged (another completely freeze) yesterday... Oh

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-14 Thread Jacky Liu
Hi everyone, Mark, I got your point about the dma/udma stuffs. My hdparm setting is UDMA w/ MultiSector 16.. I had recompiled my kernel and disabled the FB option but my linux box still hanged (another completely freeze) yesterday... Oh well.. I have been tracking this thread for a few days a

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 13 May 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test > > load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain > > allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Mike, On Sat, 12 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test > load? It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should remain > allocated on other folks lightly loaded boxen given that my heavily > loaded box does release swapspace quite

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-12 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Friday 11 May 2001 13:46, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome > > memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed > > back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as > > The swap handling in 2.4 is somewhat h

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Does any swap write/release if you hit such a box with heavy duty IO? > > (pages on dirty list, swapspace allocated but writeout defered?) > > Hard to tell. I switched my desktop box back to 2.2 a while back > until the VM works. I should have reversed to

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Does any swap write/release if you hit such a box with heavy duty IO? > (pages on dirty list, swapspace allocated but writeout defered?) Hard to tell. I switched my desktop box back to 2.2 a while back until the VM works. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > If I turn swap off all together or turn it off and back on > > > > periodically to clear the swap before it gets full, I do not seem to > > > > experience the lockups. > > > > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test load? > > I

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-12 Thread Alan Cox
> > > If I turn swap off all together or turn it off and back on > > > periodically to clear the swap before it gets full, I do not seem to > > > experience the lockups. > > Why do I not see this behavior with a heavy swap throughput test load? > It seems decidedly odd to me that swapspace should

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome > > memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed > > back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as I've seen this mentioned a few times now and am

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome > memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed > back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as The swap handling in 2.4 is somewhat hosed at the moment. > If I turn swap off all together

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-11 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 22:57, Jacky Liu wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to post a question regarding to a problem of unknown freeze of > my linux firewall/gateway. > > Here is the hardware configuration of my machine: > > AMD K-6 233 MHz > 2theMax P-55 VP3 mobo > 64Mb RAM in a single module

Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-10 Thread Jacky Liu
Hi Mark, I think you pin-pointed one of the possible reason of the unknown freeze.. which is FB mode. Yes, I am using FB mode.. hm.. I will go back to recompile my kernel without FB mode and see whether this method can fix my problem or not. You are right for the other assumption, I am running

2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason

2001-05-10 Thread Jacky Liu
Dear All, I would like to post a question regarding to a problem of unknown freeze of my linux firewall/gateway. Here is the hardware configuration of my machine: AMD K-6 233 MHz 2theMax P-55 VP3 mobo 64Mb RAM in a single module (PC-100) Maxtor 6G UDMA-33 harddisk Matrox MG-II display card