From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:51:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:51:35 -0400 Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.22]:45732 "EHLO hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:51:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3B58D19A.9080509@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:49:30 -0400 From: Brad Chapman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i586; en-US; C-UPD: MaxLinux0301) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Strange behavior with 2.4.x on a Celeron Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Hello, I have a Celeron 400MHz/66MHz with 256MB of RAM, a 6.4GB Quantum Fireball and an onboard SiS AGP chipset. I am currently running 2.4.5. I have noticed that when I unpack large tar files on my system, it will sometimes lock up the hard disk, and I would also guess the filesystem code with it. When I try to switch to another VC to kill the tar process, it hangs when I run ps ax. When I try to run ANY command which accesses the hard disk, it also hangs. Accessing /proc or /dev (I use devfs) doesn't cause any problems. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brad