Thus spake Anthony Campbell: > On 09 Nov 2001, David Rose wrote: > > Anthony Campbell in message Total lockup with kernel 2.4.14 (Fri, 11/09 16:32): > > > > > I had two lockups with kernel 2.4.12; I've just had another with 2.4.14. > > > I was online at all these times, using Acroread on the last occasion. > > > No key or mouse would work. The hard disk kept running. > > > > > > I think this may be a VM issue, because it doesn't seem to happen with > > > the Alan Cox patches. > > > > > > Anthony. > > This has happened to me twice at work using acroread (as plugged into Opera), > > and once at home using large fonts in the Gimp. After a reboot from the Gimp > > crash, I tried to use a large font again and hung X. Ctrl-Alt-BS got me out > > the second time, where it would not the first time. > > > > Both machines in question are 2.4.14 kernels. > > > > -David Rose > Yet another lockup, this time using the Alan Cox v.7 version of 2.4.13. > Once again, it was during a download, but not a very big one. > This is really bad; I used to boast that these things only happened > with W.....s but now they are happening frequently with Linux. > > My swap space is hardly touched at all so it can't be that. I can only > think it's to do with VM. > > I think I shall have to install ext3 because of these crashes, but they > are very bad news. Am I the only one getting this experience? > > Anthony Campbell I was, but I seem to have much better mileage with 2.4.13-ac and ext3 - up for 17 days so far without any problems. It seems that the 2.4 kernels are still a bit rough. Good luck, Steve -- Laetrile is the pits.
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