Thanks for the reply Alan, much appreciated.
This system is running on Uniprocessor Intel P III's or Celerons (a
variety of clock speeds) with either 256 or 512Mb of memory and no swap
(another experiment). The Serial Hardware is a proprietary card (with a
driver to cope with that, mostly copied from the standard serial driver)
giving us the 240 serial lines. I can give more detail on that and the
driver if necessary.
Just offhand I have been through my driver (with others making
comments/suggestions) a few times to see if it's all my fault (which it
may well still be). The reason I know interrupts are still running is
that on every interrupt I stick a different value onto the Parallel port
and can see those changing as I would expect even when the system is
locked up otherwise.
I am considering 2.4.19 but haven't had a chance to test with the
driver/hardware yet. That will be soon as it seems a good path to go down.
One thing I forgot was that there was the same failure with a system
running without the squid. It seems though, that a system running
without squid will fail less often (two or more weeks between failures
as opposed to a few days).
I hope I'm giving enough detail to be useful here.
Bill
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