Does anyone know how to turn up the debug info on ReiserFS and where it
writes the info?
At 11:22 PM 8/15/00 +1000, Andrew George wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jeff Groves wrote:
>
> > I have been running Mandrake 7.1 with ReiserFS and periodically (every 5-6
> > days) the system quits working.
> >
> > It doesn't crash, but I cannot run any new programs. When I try to
> enter a
> > command on the command line, it never executes or returns (it just hangs).
> >
> > Pressing the 'reset' button is the only way to recover. After that, it
> > reboots and runs fine (until the same thing happens again).
> >
> > I cannot find any error messages in the system log files, so I have not
> > been able to figure out the cause of the problem. This system is running
> > as a mail server, but is not heavily loaded.
> >
> > I have several other systems with identical hardware and software (Celeron
> > 500, 8 MB IDE, 256MB), and they don't have this problem. Any idea how to
> > troubleshoot this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff Groves
> >
>Hi Jeff,
>Sounds like a curley one.
>In truth, I've got no idea whats causing it...the first thing I'd check is
>if the Kernels getting onto a loop somehow..to do that run a monitor
>(xload, gtop, ktop, top, xcpu, xsysinfo- theres a pile of them) on screen
>so when it
>crashes you've got the last reported problem (actually use xload or
>xsysinfo...they seem to have a shorter update interval). If they show that
>the load, memory or swap has gone bananas then you've got a starting point
>(I'm assuming your running an X session on the box).
>If not...then write down every incident - time, date (so you can see if
>any cron jobs were running), the last three
>things you did, if there was mail spooling...anything you can think
>of...then after a couple of hangs...start looking for common items
>If you think you've found something in common...try to recreate it.
>
>Oh well...no doubt the gurus of this list will have a better answer for
>you.
>
>Take Care
>Andrew
>
