[svlug] 2.1.127/8 weirdness?

[George Bonser]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jonathan Sergent wrote:

> I've been running 2.1.x for the better part of the last year and have 
> never encountered that.  I usually don't reboot except for when the
> new kernels come out.

As I said, 2.1.125 never did it, no previous kernel ever did it, just .127
and .128. I will test .129 now.

>  * i430TX chipset motherboard, AMD-K6-233 processor, 128MB RAM.

Anyone running a devel kernel with <64MB?

>  * NCR 53c876 SCSI controller with disks, cd, tape.

Ok, you have big RAM and SCSI disk. I am now interested in little RAM with
IDE disk.

> That or the IDE thing you mentioned are likely causes.  What you say about
> "little is going on with the system" might mean an APM problem.

I do not have APM support enabled. Also, the kernel does not stop ... I
can ping, whatever. Any program loaded and running is responsive. If you
try to start a new program or issue a command at a shell prompt, it takes
forever for the program to start or command to complete.

Example: I could have knews up and I can read news just fine. If I go to a
command prompt and issue an uptime command, it can take 10 minutes to
respond. In the meantime, there is no disk activity or anything. 

George Bonser

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