Sorry about the delay in response. I was on vacation. "Liam Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I run top, it shows the 2GB ram almost fully allocated and no swap > used; this is fairly typical in all situations in my experience. I have > experienced heavy paging before and this isn't it - this is a total > freeze. > > I have some more data points, for what its worth. > > The problem happens as reliably with scp as it does with ftp (which at > the very least means this report is under the wrong package). I don't > have the problem doing a cp to an AFS filesystem. I have a second > Debian Lenny client with all the same software installed (newer > hardware) and it doesn't have trouble ftping the large file out. It > seems possible this is a hardware problem, but I don't know how to > diagnose it. One thing that I know can really mess up an AFS client is if there are any disk problems with the cache partition. However, I would expect at least something in either syslog or dmesg. (However, if the system hangs, it may be that something was logged but you just can't get to it.) The hard hang of the system with no long messages or console output does imply to me something going wrong in either the hardware or the kernel. Unfortunately, there are a lot of candidates, disk or some weirdness with the network card or drivers being the main candidates. I don't know how to diagnose further either. :/ -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
