On 7/12/05, Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As background, we've been using a relatively old kernel (2.6.4-mm2) on some > IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM, umem cards, and serveraid storage. These > machines are under continuous heavy-ish load, load avg between about 1 and > 5, with between 2500-3500 procs at all times, with several largish ReiserFS > partitions and have been running *really* well with >250 days uptime on one > machine. > > We recently tried upgrading one of the machines to the latest kernel > (2.6.12.2) and it's died after about 24 hours. It seemed to end up in some > weird state where we could ssh into it, and some commands worked (eg uptime) > but process list related commands (ps) would just freeze up into an > unkillable state and we'd have to close the seesion and ssh in again.
I experienced the exact same thing on a IBM 335 - in my case I had messed up with the ACPI setup. Could you paste the output from /proc/interupts also is your kernel running with IRQ balancing ?. Regards. Lars Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
