Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a deadlock/crash since. Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+ and Have the Preempt Big Kernel Lock turned on in my 2.6.19 kernel and have experienced no

[gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new processes, i get a lot of defuncts.. and dosn't let new users log in at all, sudo/su-ing either. I've checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new processes, i get a lot of defuncts.. and dosn't let new

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Duane Griffin
On 14/02/07, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new processes, i get a lot of defuncts.. and dosn't let new users

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
On 2/14/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
On 2/14/07, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/02/07, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
On 2/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: On 2/14/07, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SysRq-t? Sorry can't find it in portage, can you explain please? less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt --

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Duane Griffin
On 14/02/07, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried vanilla sources Fair enough, let's see where the problem seems to be, anyway. So wait for it to lock again, and check the kernel tasks with sysrq-t / echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger. Will get back as soon as I get more info.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Pongrácz István
I had the same experience, when I turned on the 'DMA engine' option in the kernel config (from 2.6.18.x) I disabled it and after it everything are working fine. István 2007. 02. 14, szerda keltezéssel 15.30-kor Ivan Lucian Aron ezt írta: On 2/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Pongrácz István wrote: I had the same experience, when I turned on the 'DMA engine' option in the kernel config (from 2.6.18.x) I disabled it and after it everything are working fine. That's interesting. I've wondered what that option is since it came out, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a deadlock/crash since. Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support