Re: Repeated lockups caused by ext3?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:20:55PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> For the past couple of months I have been getting repeated lockups using
> 2.4 kernels; 2.4.17 at present. They always occur when I'm on line and
> downloading, never at other times, and never on kernel 2.2.20. No
> particular process seems to cause it. When it happens, all keys are
> inoperative, the modem stops working, and the hard disk light is
> permanently on.
> 
> They never occur on my laptop, using kernel 2.4.17.
>
> They began to occur at about 2.4.10. I kept attributing them to VM
> issues and fiddled with all sorts of things in the BIOS, without
> result.
> 
> However, I've now found that they don't occur if I don't use ext3. This
> therefore seems to be the answer in my case. Is this a known issue, and
> is there any way of getting ext3 to work?
> 
> For the record: Processor is Intel Coppermine 600Mhz; 192M memory.
> Not using hdparm.

  Oh dear..  uniprocessor ?
  I get SMP machine to hang when writing 1+ GB file to EXT3 on RAID-1, and 
  having more than 512 MB memory...

> Anthony
> -- 
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/Matti Aarnio