RE: [SLE] Suse 8.0 crash issues.

I forgot to ask. When my machine crashes (1 cpu only, kernel 2.4.16, suse 7.3) both Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs blinks alternatively. That type of crash have been reported by various people, with the only common thing of using suse 7.3 or 8.0; but I don't know if your LEDs do that blinking. I had to append "disableapic" in lilo.conf, and use gdm instead of kdm as graphical login, and some adjustments in the kernel that I have forgotten. Now, the crashes are more rare, and not so bad, I'm able to "halt". Usually, it is memory swap failing, and some processes like cron stopping suddenly. I thought kernel 2.4.18 had that solved, maybe not. There are more suggestions at suse's sdb, try them. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson El 02.09.30 a las 17:19, Mike Smit escribió:

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:19:08 -0500 From: Mike Smit To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Suse 8.0 crash issues.

The only entry in /var/log/messages that contains "SMP" and appears to refer to the problem at hand is in the following block:

Sep 27 00:21:19 brie kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- Sep 27 00:21:29 brie kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18-64GB-SMP Sep 27 00:21:56 brie kernel: Loaded 13537 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.18-64GB-SMP. Sep 27 00:21:56 brie kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Sep 27 00:21:57 brie kernel: Loaded 573 symbols from 17 modules. Sep 27 00:21:57 brie kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x70/0) Sep 27 00:21:57 brie last message repeated 3 times Sep 27 00:21:57 brie kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Sep 27 00:21:57 brie kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x70/0) Sep 27 00:21:57 brie last message repeated 2 times

I'm not sure if this helps or not. The problem appears to be a memory leak of some sort, since we lose the machine like clockwork eighteen hours or so after we start it. Thanks for your help so far.

-Michael Smit -msmit@cpm.com

-----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:37 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 8.0 crash issues.

Does your board have one or more CPUs? If it only has one, don't use the smp kernel.

There are more sugestions on the SDB, search for "smp" or "crash". For example: " * SMP Kernel Is Installed Despite Existing Single Processor Motherboard (14.06.2002)"

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson