Re: Alpha hang after 24hrs (2.4.21-rc6)

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:45:57AM -0400, Dan Maas wrote:
 
> The symptom is a total lock-up/freeze, nothing is printed to the
> console or syslog. I have not tried a serial console yet but that is
> my next step.

I've encountered this with older kernels when I tried a GigE NIC.
 
> The system is a stock 1-CPU 500MHz Alpha, 128MB RAM, nothing special,
> just two 3c59x ethernet cards and an AIC788x SCSI controller.
                                       ^^^^^^^
you should retry with the newer driver from :
   http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC

Mine has been running 2.4.21-rc3 + this driver for 8 days now without problem,
and there's not much difference between -rc3 and -rc6.

Regards,
Willy