Kernel lockups

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> I have problem with my machine. It hangs from time to time (~ once per 
> week) - yesterday first time anything left in logs (attached). Earlier I 
> had clear logs and sometimes on console was some "Memory Fault" or some 
> omm-killer actions.
[...]
> The problem is similar to mine:
> http://www.forum-informatica-pro.info/index.php/m/128695/
> 
> I have e1000 on board too and the problems seems to be really similar 
> (except I don't use nbd). Something seems to "eat" the memory, not 
> releasing it. The load is raising to ~50-100 and system is dead. Mostly 
> even Sysrq is not working.

It seems that this was my problem:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.1/1817.html

In 2.6.17 that patch is applied and now seems to be working well (will see 
in next few days).

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