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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: "\"Rüegg, Peter H.\"" <peter.ruegg@eenterprises.com>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Complete freeze with 2.4.20 on 4-proc IBM xSeries 350
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:10:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11930000.1039565421@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E8EE16A19D69D611B40000D0B73EBB250F06BE@exchange.intern.eproduction.ch>

> I'm experiencing serious problems with Kernel 2.4.20 on a IBM xSeries 350
> machine, having 4 700 MHz processors and 4 GB RAM (same on another machine
> with the same configuration, but only 3 GB RAM). The machine just com-
> pletely freezes after some time, ranging from 20 minutes to 3 hours. It
> is running IBM DB/2 with quite some load, the base system is RedHat 7.2
> with all the updates applied. There is no oops or other fault, just a
> plain freeze.

Can you watch /proc/meminfo and see how low "lowfree" gets?
If it gets low (eg below 50Mb), dump /proc/slabinfo as well.

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-10 22:58 Complete freeze with 2.4.20 on 4-proc IBM xSeries 350 "Rüegg, Peter H."
2002-12-11  0:10 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-12-26 21:43   ` Zed Pobre
2002-12-28  4:28     ` Zed Pobre

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