Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:51:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like the system is still running, but any attempt to access the > hard drive gets stuck in an uninteruptible sleep. you might consider the following sysctl settings (if you want to automatically reboot the system): fi

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my memory usage > has steadily climbed despite having no users on the system, perhaps htop memstat sysatat or similar things can help smartmontools hdparm (and badblocks, later) for the HD Also, how much (kernel) memory is used

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 > -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 > Swap

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:48:28PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Give us some hardware details. CPU and speed, ram size, swap size, any > errors in /var/log/syslog? > > You may want to install the memtest86+ package and run it when you can > spare the box for a while. The package installs a gr

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed debain Etch 40r3 on an older Intel desktop > which was previously reliably running a 2,4 Kernel SuSE system. > > The installation went pretty smoothly, and the system is being manly > used as a firewall

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
I would think so. It is quite a lightly loaded system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 Swap:699138048

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tuko kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 122, ti=dfa66000 task=dff98550 > task.ti=dfa66000) Is the memory (ram + swap) sufficient ? A 2.6 kernel might need more memory than a 2.4 kernel. The heavvier use of swap is needed, the easier