2.4.18 freezes on heavy IO

Richard Ems (r.ems.mtg@gmx.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:52:41 +0100


Hi all!

I'm seeing my system freeze on heavy IO. Only the reset button brings it
back to life again (ALT-SysRq-b also worked once). I'm running SuSE's
2.4.18-30 on a Pentium III (Coppermine) with 256 MB RAM (yes, I should
try vanilla 2.4.18, I will ...)
No SCSI, all IDE. LVM and ext3.
I don't get any oopses, no entries in /var/log/messages, nothing. I
mounted the ext3 partitions with the debug option but still no messages.
What options can I turn on to search for the problem? Any kernel boot
options? LVM/ext3 options?

Many thanks, Richard

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   Richard Ems
   ... e-mail: r.ems@gmx.net
   ... Computer Science, University of Hamburg

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