John the ripper does not stress the net and hard disk interfaces of the kernel, only the cpu.
You may also have hit a bug that is triggered only by samba. Samba uses also not commonly used system calls, that may be less robust than others. I also think you should issue a bug at debian.org so that they can test it is not a bad interaction between with the kernel. Simo. On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:15, Eric Belhomme wrote: > Volker Lendecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrivait dans le message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : > > > This looks like a problem with your hardware or the Linux kernel you > > are running. I don't think this can be fixed from within Samba. > > > hum, I don't think so... > The system was absolutely stable for weeks before I ran samba (I even ran > John the ripper to verify if it stay stable with a high load average for 1 > week :D) And all the installed packages are official packages from Debian. > > Moreover, my hardware is known to be robust : Asus P5A motherboard, 3com > 3c905TX NIC, Adaptec SCSI controller, etc... > > -- > Eric Belhomme > -- Simo Sorce - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xsec s.r.l. via Durando 10 Ed. G - 20158 - Milano tel. +39 02 2399 7130 - fax: +39 02 700 442 399
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