On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:15, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 19:23, Steven Cole wrote: > > I booted 2.5.33-mm3 and ran dbench with increasing > > numbers of clients: 1,2,3,4,6,8,10,12,16,etc. while > > running vmstat -n 1 600 from another terminal. > > > > After about 3 minutes, the output from vmstat stopped, > > and the dbench 16 output stopped. The machine would > > respond to pings, but not to anything else. I had to > > hard-reset the box. Nothing interesting was saved in > > /var/log/messages. I have the output from vmstat if needed. > > That happened to me yesterday while hacking 2.4 and the reason was > failed oom detection. Memory leak? I've seen this on 6 diffrent machines (master.kernel.org is one of them). I have a fileserver here that hits this all the time, sometimes as much as a few times a day. If anyone has any ideas or patches for 2.4 I'll happily test them. -- /Martin Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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