From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: genlogic@mediaone.net (Sam Krasnik)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel lockup?
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:37:13 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16LMID-0008FF-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C309F51.9050908@mediaone.net> from "Sam Krasnik" at Dec 31, 2001 12:24:33 PM
> however, after seeing it still happening, i am led to believe that it may
> be some power management problem or not a kernel problem at all...
It may be several things
> (in which case this mailing list is NOT where i should be posting,
> sorry for the distraction if i am wrong). the lockup only happens after
> extended periods of idle time (specifically in the morning after a night
> of not using the computer). the sysrq works, so i guess it isn't a hard
> lockup? if it is kernel...what then? if not...what could be the problem?
That sounds like the kernel. At 4am lots and lots of I/O intensive things
occur (reindexing the locate cache, removing dead files from /tmp and so on)
If it was a BIOS bug I'd expect it to occur at arbitary times when the box
is idle not the morning after
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2001-12-31 17:24 Sam Krasnik
2002-01-01 10:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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