Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-28 Thread Marty
An update to my own post: Thanks to everyone who replied. One of the systems is now stable after removing a set of SIMM modules. The other system hang also appears to be hardware (removing an AGP video adapter seems to eliminate the problem). I now believe that Debian is not a cause of the pro

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > > the one in

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > > the one included in 2.0.33 (which

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when > activating special feat

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes: > >>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using >>> one or more scripts, such as >>> >>> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string >>> >>> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. >>> >>> The

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or >> more >> scripts, such as >> >> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string >> >> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. >> >> The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-

Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-22 Thread Marty
I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and controllers (