On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:24:25AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Feb 2002, Arne Goetje wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the > > > > frequent lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series > > > > kernels is due to enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the > > > > lockups don't occur. Has anyone else seen this? > > > > > > I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system. > > > > > > I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was > > > new X. Console where I run startx become white. I have 3dfx on > > > cheep SMP box (Abit BP6). SMP keep popping up interrupt error, > > > anyway. > > > > > > Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock > > > up like this which requires brutal power-off button action. > > > > > > Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp > > > > Can it be that it is a kernel version issue? I use 2.2.14 with > > ext3-patch (self compiled) and don't have any problems at all. In > > which situations do you get these lockups? > > > > Cheers Arne -- > > I don't think it's related to kernel version, at least in my case. > It's happened with all kernels from 2.4.10 onwards. > > Incidentally, I believe there are known problems with lockups in SMP, > but I don't have that. > > Anthony >
After 2 hard lock ups (<24hr), I stop running X (Galeon) on that machine over night. Now It is stable even with ext3 for few days. Now I suspect X server. :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
