Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Mar 1998 03:08:28 -0700 | From | Keith Rowland <> | Subject | Re: Sporadious hang on 2.0.3[0,1,2,3,4pre2] |
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Daniel Ryde wrote: > > I have several "nightmare" hangs (total freeze, dead keyboard, ither > black or freezed normal screen) on six dial-in terminalservers here. It > has been like this since I left kernel 2.0.29. It can happen once a month > up to twice a day, under low loadavg, from a few users up to 25 users. > Nothing in the logs whatsoever.
Welcome to the club Daniel. There are many of us who have this unstable stable release. I have a high volume web server, actually 4 different ones, that ALL exhibit this behavior. Let me assure you, it is nothing that you are doing specifically. It is something either in the kernel or some common configuration or user program.
I have been fighting this for 3 months. Initially I thought it was something I did and have not been able to figure out anything that I am doing wrong and have given up the fight to those better than I.
So I posted my complete report and even sent my config file to someone who was collecting them. At this point in time, NO ONE has addressed any possible fix for this. Even though we all know it started with 2.0.30 and is still in all newer versions.
I joined this list, in an effort to work with the kernel developers in resolving this. It appears there is no one willing to work on 2.0 series anymore, nor willing to make Linux stable once again. They are all busy working on 2.1.x kernels, which may or may not have the same problem. I realize it is difficult to track down a intermittent problem, but I though if we had enough people, we could all pool our collective experiences.
I'm afraid I'm going to probably unsub from the list and will be forced to go back to 2.0.29 or even switch OSes. For once when Linux was the most stable OS in my arsenal, it has swerved into the abiss with other unstables OSes.
Have I shamed anyone into trying to fix this?? I'll even put up a reward!!
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