Re: tracing a kernel lock up

2001-02-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
Guillaume Marceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This failure mode is not observed under Windows, ruling out a > hardware problem. You can't say that. Linux stresses the hardware much more than Windows. So, Windows can be "stable" while Linux is crashing all the time... > My uninformed guess blam

tracing a kernel lock up

2001-02-13 Thread Guillaume Marceau
I'm having a unpredictable system lock-up. In the midle of some disk activity, the lose all system responsiveness, and the red disk-access led stays on, without the drives actually doing anything. The crash is very unprepictable. It occurs anywhere between three times a day and once a week. The