From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:25:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:24:55 -0400 Received: from cx595243-c.okc1.ok.home.com ([24.6.27.53]:42128 "EHLO quark.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:24:43 -0400 From: Vincent Stemen Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 00:25:08 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca To: "Jacky Liu" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200105150713.AAA18791@mail7.bigmailbox.com> In-Reply-To: <200105150713.AAA18791@mail7.bigmailbox.com> Subject: Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051600250800.24906@quark> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 15 May 2001 02:13, Jacky Liu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Mark, I got your point about the dma/udma stuffs. My hdparm setting is > UDMA w/ MultiSector 16.. > > I had recompiled my kernel and disabled the FB option but my linux box > still hanged (another completely freeze) yesterday... Oh well.. > > I have been tracking this thread for a few days and it seem the source of > this problem is related to swap space. Vincent, would you mind to send me > the patch for swap space problem if Alan had sent it to you? So I can > test it on my machine and report the result later. > I havn't received the patch but, on Byron Stanoszek's suggestion, I have compiled 2.4.4 with gcc-2.95.3 to run on it a few days to see if it is any better. So far, it appears at least as stable as with egcs-1.1.2 and most of the swap was freed up this morning for the first time since 2.4.0. However, it is pretty full tonight. I should know tomorrow if it really made a difference. This is usually the state in which I find it locked up the next morning. It has been up a little over 2 days now. Byron actually suggested I use the ac7 patch but I first wanted to see if the compiler had anything to do with it without changing anything else. > Mark, please suggest a setting for the hdparm so I can test it on my > machine. Thanks alot for your time. > > Best Regards, > Jacky Liu >