Pieter: El Vie 22 Abr 2005 10:13, Pieter Hulshoff escribió:
Lately I've experienced frequent lockups of my SuSE 9.1 installation during high CPU/disk activity (ripping a DVD to avi or compiling a large program will do the trick). The system will freeze, output to the monitor disabled, and the HD and CD-ROM LED will be burning constantly. I've already replaced the power supply (now using a 480W Tagan), and added an extra fan, but that didn't help too much. I've also run a memory check already: all clean.
I have been experiencing exactly the same behaviour on a SuSE 8.2 box, after applying the latest kernel update (2.4.20-131, installed 2005-03-26). Have you by any means updated your kernel lately? From a post on this list I learned to turn off memory overcommitting: 'echo "2" > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory' (for a running system), and put 'vm.overcommit_memory = 2' in /etc/sysctl.conf to apply the same configuration at a later reboot. After near daily system hangs I applied this modification last week, and my current uptime is 8 days and counting - it seems as if this did the trick, so you might give it a try. Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com