8.1 was terrible for me and would hang all the time, i think my longest uptime was a little under a day !! 8.2 rocks though, much much more stable, at least for me, much much quicker too!!
mark On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:56 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just hope I > won't have to give up saying that "Linux does not hang" to my buddies, > but right now it's kind of difficult. I'm having daily hang-ups. > > Here goes a quick summary of my system : > Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know) > A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked). > 2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128) > TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers > kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled), 2.4.18 (stock Linus kernel) > > Well , what happens is that I've been experiencing these freezes for > about two weeks now. I haven't made any major modification to the system > prior to the hang-ups. The system seems to freeze completely; at first I > thought it was just X locking (not commom, but not quite unexpected) but > I realized there was something more deeply wrong when I couldn't telnet > into my machine. Telnet wouldn't reply; it would just stay at the prompt > without giving an access denied, couldn't connect or any other error. > Ping , strangely, worked fine. Prior to that, my system had been > rock-stable for months. > > I started trying to figure out what was wrong; there was nothing in the > logs. The system would just die. I thought it could be a (strange) IRQ > conflict problem ( since as I said my system had been running well for > months) and moved my ethernet board to another PCI slot. The hangs were > still there. Can someone tell me if an IRQ conflict can do that sort of > thing? The hang-ups always seem to happen when I am either using my > (soft)modem or xmms (problem is that I'm almost always doing these, so > it 's not much of a information). > > > Only once I got an error in the log; it said the kernel couldn't handle > a paging request, so I began to suspect it was a memory problem. I went > to BIOS and lowered the settings of the memory; then I remembered > reading somewhere that having the kernel optmized for Athlon/Durons > sometimes led people to hangs, so I downloaded the latest (2.4.18) > kernel, an compiled it without going for Athlon arch. Which actually got > me somewhere, everything hanged but the mouse; this time I managed to > telnet into my machine and seemed that X was consuming 101% CPU (well, > something like 99,5% actually). But the day after I got another complete > freeze. > > > I have some people saying that I should do a BIOS update, install LM8.2, > but I don't think any of these may help since the system was performing > normally just a while ago. I am limited right now to boot into window$ > (blergh!) and see if the if it also freezes (not much of a deal, > considering it is window$, but even my window$ didn't have daily > freezes). If it does, then it is most probably a hardware problem. What > bothers me is that it never freezes when I'm running CPU/memory > intensive programs, like Quake3 or watching DivX/DVDs. I also tested the > memory (and other subsystems) in window$ using Sandra2001 and it > reported no problems. If it were a hardware problem then it was bound to > happen during a stress situation... > > > > > I am very willing to listen to ANY suggestion anyone might have, since I > am becoming quite a bit desperate about it. Also if anyone has had any > similar problem , I'd be more than happy to listen, perhaps I can find a > solution to my problems. > > TIA, > > Jeferson L. Zacco > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (if possible include a CC to my e-mail above) -- 5:23pm up 1 day, 8:25, 2 users, load average: 1.55, 1.21, 0.92
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