* kernel lockup?
@ 2001-12-31 17:24 Sam Krasnik
2002-01-01 10:37 ` Alan Cox
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From: Sam Krasnik @ 2001-12-31 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
*please cc the replies to me*
hello
i have been getting some (i thought) kernel lockups. only a hard reset would
help. originally i thought it was the emu10k1 sb live driver, and i read
that 2.4.7 didn't have the problem (i was using 2.4.8). i also tried using
alsa, which didn't work either.
however, after seeing it still happening, i am led to believe that it may
be some power management problem or not a kernel problem at all...
(in which case this mailing list is NOT where i should be posting,
sorry for the distraction if i am wrong). the lockup only happens after
extended periods of idle time (specifically in the morning after a night
of not using the computer). the sysrq works, so i guess it isn't a hard
lockup? if it is kernel...what then? if not...what could be the problem?
thx
--sam
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* Re: kernel lockup?
2001-12-31 17:24 kernel lockup? Sam Krasnik
@ 2002-01-01 10:37 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2002-01-01 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sam Krasnik; +Cc: linux-kernel
> however, after seeing it still happening, i am led to believe that it may
> be some power management problem or not a kernel problem at all...
It may be several things
> (in which case this mailing list is NOT where i should be posting,
> sorry for the distraction if i am wrong). the lockup only happens after
> extended periods of idle time (specifically in the morning after a night
> of not using the computer). the sysrq works, so i guess it isn't a hard
> lockup? if it is kernel...what then? if not...what could be the problem?
That sounds like the kernel. At 4am lots and lots of I/O intensive things
occur (reindexing the locate cache, removing dead files from /tmp and so on)
If it was a BIOS bug I'd expect it to occur at arbitary times when the box
is idle not the morning after
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