RE: Strange behavior with 2.4.x on a Celeron

[Kevin Krieser]

Is your hard drive setup for DMA?

Run
/sbin/hdparm /dev/hda
to check.

If so, you may want to tweak some settings, or even check that your cables
are good and don't go too near other cables.

I had similar problems when I bought a new UDMA/100 hard drive and wanted to
connect it to my HT366 controller rather than my ATA/33 controller.  It
would work for awhile, then under heavy load I would loose an IRQ and I had
to do a hard reset.

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Brad Chapman
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 7:50 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Strange behavior with 2.4.x on a Celeron

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