well, i hate to be piling on here, but i just encountered this (i think
it's this) this morning.  i was printing a 145+m file (to /dev/lp0) from
an ide drive and it locked up.  just before the lockup, i noticed it was
very sluggish, as if it were under very heavy load (which is really
wasn't).  this is on an smp-enabled machine (noapic at lilo prompt
because of the usb/pirq(?) problem).  i'm using 2.4.0-test12 on a tyan
tiger 133 (via apollo 133a chipset) mobo.  the machine has 512m memory
and another 512m in swap (didn't notice much swap activity, but i could
have missed it).  there were no messages in the logs.

if there's any info i can provide or tests i can run, just let me know.

pete

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On 12 Dec 00 at 17:43, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> > 
> > > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity
> > > in test12?
> > >
> > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in
> > test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape.
> > test12-pre7 seems to be stable.

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