On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +0000, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Under any good OS (not Win95, Winnt?), software running in userspace (that
> is, all programms, including init) should _never_ be able to crash the
> machine. If the machine crashed under heavy load and/or heavy IO, it seems
> that your hardware is buggy. Consider, that non-ECC RAM _could_ cause
> errors, as well as IDE-Disks.
I don't know if what version of Linux you are running but 2.2.x
will hang sometimes if you runs out of memory. It is fixed in
2.3.x and Andrea A. also has a patch for 2.2. You should also
reduce your qmail and tcpserver concurrency.
Instead of speculating, why don't you run "vmstat 1" and inject a
10 MB message? You should be able to tell quickly if you are
running out of memory.
Neil
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