Hello.
I've been using slackware since around 3.0 and about 3 months ago
started reformatting/installing the various dist's to see and form my
own opinions of the various dist's. I was very impressed with SuSE 5.3
as the file structure was more similar with slack then the others I had
tried.
My problem is that while running SuSE, after about a day, the hard
drive light would light and stay lit permanetely and after about 3 days
the system would lock forcing me to do a reset. The longest uptime I was
able to accrue was 4 days and 20 hours +/- some minutes.
Hardware:
Pentium 133 with 48MB RAM
approx. 8 gigs of HD space and 94MB swap space
SCSI is aha152x (SCSI Soundblaster 16) running 4GIG of the 8
MB is a hot-541 pci
NE2000 ethernet connected to an ascend pipeline 25
USR33.6 modem
Logitech Trackball
Distributions:
SuSE 5.3 devel/network packages (std tweaking for PPP/etc..)
Slackware 3.6 devel/network packages (std tweaking as above)
rolled my own kernels for both dist's using the same
setup files, all drivers are compiled into the kernel
with the exception of the NE2000 driver which HAS to
be moduler.
Software:
AfterStep 1.5.X
Netscape 4.5
Nedit 5.0.2
Filerunner 2.5
BitchX-75p1+Tcl1.5/Linux 2.0.35 on ansi-xterm
those are the main programs I use
What makes this even more strange is that I never experienced this
problem while running slack, the other dist's I only kept loaded about 2
days before I got fed up with them so I have no other comparisons, SuSE
was the only one I really liked and really want to continue using but
not at the expense of stability.
I even reloaded Slackware 3.6 and am currently runing on day 16 for
uptime. Has anyone else experienced this or have any clues?
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