This might be a bad HD but I thought I'd ask anyway. Running RedHat 8 system; kernel 2.4.18-14. Was having some weird problems on boot so I did: % find / -type f -fstype ext3 | perl -n -e 'print `md5sum $_`;' to torture the disk. It's a 20G Maxtor disk with about 12G free. The system locks up hard (no ping, no capslock light) after a while. Different place every time. Built 2.4.20 with ext3 debugging. Set debug level to 3--no lockup. While writing this, reran test with debug level 2--locks up. I'm going to build with the magic sysreq key and see if any further elucidation is possible. -- David Poole "Setting a bologna sandwich on fire does dpoole at mbuf dot com not constitute cooking." - Get Fuzzy
David Poole
2003-Jan-15 17:48 UTC
Re: system lockup when hammering ext3 partition (caused by bad RAM)
Wasn't a bad HD. Was bad RAM. Swapped out the RAM and my problems went away. Sorry for the interruption. On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:29:31AM -0700, David Poole wrote:> This might be a bad HD but I thought I'd ask anyway. > > Running RedHat 8 system; kernel 2.4.18-14. Was having some > weird problems on boot so I did: > > % find / -type f -fstype ext3 | perl -n -e 'print `md5sum $_`;'-- David Poole "Setting a bologna sandwich on fire does dpoole at mbuf dot com not constitute cooking." - Get Fuzzy