Re: I can lock up machine. Why?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 nels0988@tc.umn.edu wrote:

> Hey.
> 
> I've been doing lots of programming lately and have noticed (how could I
> not) that I am reliably able to cause my machine to lockup.
> 
> I'm running 1.3.1, and have reinstalled from CD twice, once going so far
> as to wipe the entire boot partition first.
> 
> This is how I do it:
> 
> open a document in xfte that is several pages long.
> Quickly scroll through it using the page up and page down keys.
> In as little time as a minute I'm able to lock the machine solid --
> no disk access, nothing.  
> 
> Note that I told the Xserver to disable XAA acceleration and am now stable
> but slow.
> 
> I'm running a Cyrix P120+, Tyan Titan III, and Trident 9680 PCI with
> 2 Megs of RAM on the card, 24 in the machine.
> 
> Also note that this machine has been perfectly stable for well over a year,
> since Debian 1.2, in fact.
> 
This sound like it could be caused by "can't get free page" problems with
the delivered 1.3 kernels. 2.0.29 is better than 2.0.30, but they can both
be locked by "fast" allocation of buffers. 

I don't think that 2.0.27 had this problem, so you might try downgrading
the kernel.

Luck,

Dwarf
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