http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165535
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165535#c13
--- Comment #13 from Ulrich Windl
Frankly, I am not sure what to do here. It would be too easy to blame it on HW incompatibility, which Sebastian mentioned.
Counter-argument: On a completely different and new hardware (Machine with four Xeon Gold (72 cores, 144 threads, > 700GB RAM) I had a kernel "freeze" while performing some memory load test that just uses a few processes that shuffle process-local memory around. The machine in question only had SSDs, configured as two RAIDs via PERC: RAID1 for base OS, and RAID6 for additional data. When performing the test without having any swap configured, the kernel started to use the OOM killer to terminate a few processes. After having configured 5GB swap @ prio=4 and >700GB swap @prio=2 the kernel froze shortly after having used swap. The special thing about the new setup was that the bug swap was configured via LVM and a thin volume. The kernel in question was 5.3.18-24.15-default (actually from SLES15 SP2), and there was plenty of swap space available when this had happened. Interestingly the kernel still responded to PING, but that was all: No VT-switching, not console getty, no ssh connection, no reaction on existing SSH connections. However I had a "top" with sleep time 1s running at the moment when the kernel froze. I gave it more than 10 minutes to recover, but nothing had happened and there was no message in /var/log/messages after the date top last had refreshed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.