TimO wrote:
>
> My previous replly was targeted more to the comments of R. Polton where
> sysreq still functioned but was unable to sync the disk netscape was
> reading/writing. The fix for this one was posted by DaveM and is in
> the test9.prex kernels.
>
> As for the hard lockups, I s'pose we
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Adam Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:54:55PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > It always happens the same although I can't repeat it on demand.
> > > Start a kernel compile and go read mail. Somewhere upon
> > > switching mail folders in netscape it locks. Box is
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:54:55PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > It always happens the same although I can't repeat it on demand.
> > Start a kernel compile and go read mail. Somewhere upon
> > switching mail folders in netscape it locks. Box is _never_
> > under swap when this occurs. Wish
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, TimO wrote:
> As for the hard lockups, I s'pose we can blame Rik. ;-) I've
> been loathe to do so tho' because on my box the locks always
> occur with low memory pressure. I actually thought that he had
> them fixed with his vmpatch cuz' I didn't get any lockups with a
> hea
Petko Manolov wrote:
>
> > which DaveM submitted a patch some time ago. Check your logs for:
> >kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:711
>
> It might be, but might not. My log files are clear from such error. This
> is because of hard locking of the machine.
>
> I'll test Rik's patch first.
>
> best
TimO wrote:
>
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
> > > I have the same kind of problems with 2.4.0-test8, test-9-pre[678].
> > >
> > > I'd thought it is due to bug in my (usb pegasus) driver which i used
> > > most of the time. But i got the same crash with eep
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
> > Richard Polton wrote:
>
> > > I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
> > > keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
> > > a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the pa
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
> Richard Polton wrote:
> > I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
> > keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
> > a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running
> > in eithe
Richard Polton wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
> keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
> a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running
> in either). I have been advised that RvR's memo
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