Re: Continued alpha hanging

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

At 04:14 PM 10/16/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>
>blyon@netpr.com said:
>> Do you use a lot of swap space during normal system opration? 
>
>Yes. Why?

I'm guessing the other people that have the lockup problem are using a lot
of swap as well.  The exact pattern of the death of my machine is that it
will run for about 3 to 20 days then randomly it will just fall over dead
after running like a champ.  

I've been debugging it like made for about a year and the only information
that I have found usefull is located here: 

http://www.theshell.com/~blyon/crash/

That is what happened two crashes ago.

In all of my crash reports the same thing happened.  The system was using
about 150-300 megs of swap and then for whatever reason all the swap space
on the system was used in a 3 minute period of time and the box then just
dies. 

When the system got so busy with the swap all the cpu was eaten by the
system and all sorts of other side effects happened.  I've set ulimits on
all the userspace stuff to prevent this odd leak in the event that it is a
user problem.

If this is the exact same problem in your case then we might have a kernel
issue.  I will send you my data collection script so that we can see if you
are having the same problem.


-Barrett





Barrett G. Lyon
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