Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Skip Collins
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. Using an IBM 45GB udma5 capable drive. The problems only occur under _heavy_ disk activity. I have -d 1 -c 3 -m 16 set. Have you tried thrashing your drive f

system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Skip Collins
After running 2.4.0-test11 for a while, my system would occasionally hang during heavy disk activity resulting in a corrupt ext2 filesystem. Fortunately, none of the damage has been irrecoverable. I checked linux-kernel to see if anyone else was seeing the same thing. The recent threads on corrupt

screensaver locks up 2.4.0-test10-pre7 hard

2000-11-01 Thread Skip Collins
Pentium 3, 256Mb RAM, kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre7 (as well as 2.4.0-test9). I installed RH7, compiled the latest development kernels (using kgcc, as required with RH7). After the "greynetic" screensaver (installed with RH7) runs for a few minutes, my box freezes up hard. I can find no error messages