Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.19 & 2.4.20 hang without oops...

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 06:52, Charlton Harrison wrote:
> While attempting to copy about 50GB of data onto an NFS-mounted partition,
> the `cp -a` process will go for a while, then my machine will hang/freeze up.
> 
> I can reproduce it very easily and quickly on kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4.20,
> and most of the time happens before even copying 10GB worth of data.
> I am unable to reproduce the problem on kernel 2.4.18.
> 
> Here are the specifics:
> 
> HARDWARE:
> 
> Dual (SMP) P3-500,  supermicro MB,  512MB ECC buffered SDRAM.

What chipset is this system - is it 450NX by any chance ?