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Description of problem:
Running 2.4.20-9 on an i686 [GenuineIntel Pentium III (Coppermine) 1004 MHZ] and
have had consistant resets during large FTP and HTTP data transfers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ftp a directory full of large files (20 - 300MB in size) [also happens during
some large, single file http transfers]
2. machine resets/reboots somewhere in the middle of transfer
3. 
    

Additional info:

It is not as if it consistantly reboots at a particular file nor quantity of
data.  I've had about 10 resets over a week or so period and on a few occations
it has simply locked hard without resetting (won't respond to pings nor accept
any input other than a manual reset/poweroff).

It seems tied to large data transfers because rsyc (where there is a lot of
traffic but no really large files) does not trigger the problem. I haven't tried
scp'ing the large files but I don't see why it would matter.

To the best of my knowledge, this is not being caused by faulty hardware.  I
have done the memory tests as well as other tests and can find no hardware faults.

Output from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
emu10k1                69032   1  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13640   0  (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound                  74228   0  (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore               6404   7  (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd                   80176   8  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2412   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              15096   1  [iptable_filter]
autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
nfs                    81336   3  (autoclean)
lockd                  58704   1  (autoclean) [nfsd nfs]
sunrpc                 81564   1  (autoclean) [nfsd nfs lockd]
3c59x                  30704   1
sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12208   0
ide-cd                 35708   0
cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
st                     31248   0  (unused)
loop                   12152   0  (autoclean)
lvm-mod                64000   0
ext3                   70784   9
jbd                    51892   9  [ext3]
aic7xxx               141204   0  (unused)
sd_mod                 13452   0  (unused)
scsi_mod              107128   6  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi st aic7xxx sd_mod]

Output from free:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        255328     173800      81528          0      61168      54684
-/+ buffers/cache:      57948     197380
Swap:       521632      86376     435256

Output from cat /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller
Hub (rev 4).
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd3ffffff].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 4).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device  30, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 17).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=6.
  Bus  0, device  31, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 17).
  Bus  0, device  31, function  1:
    IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 17).
      I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f].
  Bus  0, device  31, function  3:
    SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 17).
      IRQ 9.
      I/O at 0x5000 [0x500f].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 133).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd5ffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd6000000 [0xd6003fff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd7000000 [0xd77fffff].
  Bus  2, device   0, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 3).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0x9000 [0x90ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda001000 [0xda001fff].
  Bus  2, device   1, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
      I/O at 0x9400 [0x941f].
  Bus  2, device   1, function  1:
    Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 8).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      I/O at 0x9800 [0x9807].
  Bus  2, device   2, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 120).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
      I/O at 0x9c00 [0x9c7f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda000000 [0xda00007f].
  Bus  2, device   3, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 1).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xa000 [0xa0ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda002000 [0xda002fff].

Machine also seems significantly slower for interactive usage in KDE during
rsync operations as well as any disk intensive operation when compared to kernel
from Red Hat Linux 8.0... but that's also a different KDE so who knows?

There are no /var/log/message entries generated by the problem nor kernel panic
warnings on the screen when it happens... it's like someone just hit the reset
button during the transfer.

Default runlevel is 5... and usually in KDE with lots of apps open when problem
happens.

No other operations seem to trigger the reset behavior other than the transfer
(from the trouble machine to another machine) of large files.

Will provide additional information upon request.