Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
te something going seriously wrong when kswapd becomes active... It looks like the system is still running, but any attempt to access the hard drive gets stuck in an uninteruptible sleep. At least the problem seems to be easily reproduced... Regards, DigbyT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
arly about half of this increase (270M) is due to the buffer chache, which is a reasonable use for spare memory capacity. Any idea how to find out where the rest has gone? I'd rather not push the system into excessive swapping if disk i/o is a potent

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
The remaining files are only modified by the super user, who can be expected to do a mount -o remount as required.. Regards, DigbyT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
hat the looked so normal. Whatever was preventing new logins was not stopping the firewall or periodic cron jobs... Regards, DigbyT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
41k kernel code, 16448k reserved, 580k da ta, 196k init, 130944k highmem) Regards, DigbyT On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:44:57PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > tuko kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 122, ti=dfa66000 task=dff9

Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
, but I can't start any new ssh connections. I need to get it rebooted to get more details on the installation. Before I spend too much time on it, does anyone know of this particular oops being a known problem? Any other thoughts/suggestions appreciated. Thanks, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. T

Re: Fresh 7.10 netinstall problems...

2008-03-14 Thread digbyt
after a couple of hours with a bus error. I have just re-built the standard 686 kernel with HIGHMEM off to confirm that that gets me back to complete stability. I am tempted to adjust my memory boundaries so that I can use the full 1GB of ram without having HIGHMEM enabled

Re: Fresh 7.10 netinstall problems...

2008-03-13 Thread digbyt
ID 0 COMPAQ DDRS-34560W ULTRA2-SE > SCSI ID 1 SEAGATE ST173404LW ULTRA2-SE > Adaptec AIC-7880 BIOS DELL-V2.01.05 > SCSI ID 1 MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-200 > Primary IDE1ZIP drive > > Regards, > DigbyT > -- > Digby R. S. Tar