My machine locks up after 10-15 minutes of high disk I/O either when running backups (dump w/ Amanda) or by just gzipping very large files. I don't suspect HW issues because the machine worked wonderfully (1 1/2 years) foing nightly dumps running RH6.0. The day after I upgraded these problems cropped up. The hardware in question is: -Single proc AMD K6-2 450Mhz w/128M RAM and 1M cache on a Soyo motherboard -Boot device is a WD 13G DMA/66 IDE drive. -Problems occur across both my IDE drives one on each IDE bus, both masters. -Problems also occur on both my Seagate 4.5G Cheetahs (UW) on an Adaptec 2940UW. - I have 512M of swap configured on all 4 drives (128M) each. I have swapped out DIMMS with another machine with exact same results. I can do the gzip of a 700M file on any partiton on any disk and I get the same results. I do not get ANY messages, no Kernel panic, not even and OOPS. The box locks up hard and cannot even be given the Windows salute (Cntrl-alt-deleted). Machine must be either HW reset or powercycled. The machines seems to come up relatively fine (a couple disks generally need fsck'ing) and very little looks like a problem.
This is a kernel (or hardware) problem ...
Does 6.2 show this. If so what IDE controller ?
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