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[dhar]

Hi,

I am not a member of either of these lists and would appreciate if you could send your replies to me personally.

Now the problem:

I have an IBM Netfinity X330 server. Dual Processor (PIII 800). I compiled kernel 2.2.14 with SMP support. NFS was however compiled as a module. 

Now the problem is as follows:

Most of the times the machine just works fine. 
But whenever there is heavy disk write activity it just hangs/crashes. Also this is when the SMP kernel is used. If I use the normal kernel then there is no problem. 

Could any one tell me what has to be done to prevent this from happening? 

Any help in this regard will be very much appreciated.

Once again, kindly reply to me personally as I am not a member of either of these lists.
 
Regards
Dhar 

Re: your mail

[Tim Wright]

Hmmm...
you don't really give enough information to make much of a guess.
I'd do the following:
Grab at least 2.2.18, or even better, get Alan's 2.2.19pre (which is almost
2.2.19 now, I believe), and build and install that kernel.

Now, if you run into the same problems, record the crash details, especially
if the kernels oopses, and then send the information (kernel version, output
of ksymoops if there is an oops, kernel .config used etc.) to the mailing list.

Tim

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:34:39AM +0530, dhar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not a member of either of these lists and would appreciate if you could send your replies to me personally.
> 
> Now the problem:
> 
> I have an IBM Netfinity X330 server. Dual Processor (PIII 800). I compiled kernel 2.2.14 with SMP support. NFS was however compiled as a module. 
> 
> Now the problem is as follows:
> 
> Most of the times the machine just works fine. 
> But whenever there is heavy disk write activity it just hangs/crashes. Also this is when the SMP kernel is used. If I use the normal kernel then there is no problem. 
> 
> Could any one tell me what has to be done to prevent this from happening? 
> 
> Any help in this regard will be very much appreciated.
> 
> Once again, kindly reply to me personally as I am not a member of either of these lists.
>  
> Regards
> Dhar 
> 
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