On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: >chris>Yeah, 2.7.2.* is the canonical compiler for 2.0 kernels. Can you >chris>post what's actually going wrong? > I could. The system hangs when I tar and gzip a large directory. I >get no OOPS or any message in any log. It is hard to see what is >happening. But it happens everytime I make the tar file with 2.2.10 and >2.2.12, and never (I tried 10 times in a row ) with 2.0.36. There is >some noise on the kernel list of similar problems from people using an >AMD K6-2. I still have not tried swapping CPUs, and memory, etc.
Another data point: Actually, I've noticed the same problem with my P166MMX laptop. Except that it usually bites when dpkg is unpacking a big package or a lot of packages in one pass. Brian
