Re: 5.2-CURRENT constantly crashing

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:23:53 +0200, Jan Lentfer wrote
> i am running 5.2-CURRENT on an old 4x PPRO (200) Amdahl EnVista Server.
> The system is constantly crashing under heavy load for about 2-3 
> month now. Since all drives are connected to a Mylex Raid Controller,
>  I can't get any kernel dumps :(.

I've been reporting this for a while.  I have all new hardware and running 2 
IDE local drives, nothing's faulty.  Everything is working fine now that I have 
downgraded to 5.2.1. I have no kernel dump either since it's a problem with 
software disk write buffer. But, at least, you get a message of what could be 
the problem, I only got dead freezes.  For me, it wasn't heavy loads that was 
crashing it, but only buffers getting full.

At the moment, all I can say to help is, if you use dummynet or altq, be sure 
to have HZ=1000 in your kernel.  But that won't help you much because your 
server was working fine.

Good luck,
DrVince
DrVince_at_anonymnet.net