From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263224AbTH0Jab (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263241AbTH0Jab (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:30:31 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:2755 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263224AbTH0Ja3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:30:29 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:30:27 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Ville Herva Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tejun@aratech.co.kr Subject: Re: 2.4.22pre8 hangs too (Re: 2.4.21-jam1 solid hangs) Message-Id: <20030827113027.64c42485.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030827073758.GW83336@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <20030729073948.GD204266@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030730071321.GV150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030730181003.GC204962@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030827064301.GF150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030827073758.GW83336@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:37:58 +0300 Ville Herva wrote: > > Did you already try to exchange everything but the harddisks ? > > No. Do you suspect faulty hardware? > [...] > What I had hoped for is to be able to get some information on where it hangs. > But sysrq and nmi watchdog don't cut it... Hm, did you try a serial console? On my side this was a big step forward. If you experience complete hangs it may be something around hanging interrupts. Did you play with apic/acpi etc. to try different interrupt handling? What does your /proc/interrupts look like compared between 2.2 and 2.4 ? Regards, Stephan