Swap problems persisting?
Quoted 6 lines · On Tue, 29 May 2001 22:55:43 Alan Cox wrote:
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I found myself in trouble with sudden shutdowns while playing DVDs (LiViD) and sometimes running Mozilla 0.8.1 simultaneously, but running mozilla wasn't always necessary.
Describe "sudden shutdown" more precisely first of all
I'm terribly sorry for my unprecise description.
By "sudden shutdown" I meant that the machine freezes hard and when running X using the Magic SysRq key combinations don't seem to work so power cycling was the only option. It seems that it wasn't just the keyboard that had frozen because a webserver I'm running on the machine also stopped serving pages.
Thanks,
Peter
Quoted 9 lines · Peter Rasmussen
By "sudden shutdown" I meant that the machine freezes hard and when running X using the Magic SysRq key combinations don't seem to work so power cycling was the only option. It seems that it wasn't just the keyboard that had frozen because a webserver I'm running on the machine also stopped serving pages.
Thanks,
Peter
I ignore if this has been reported somewhere but I experience the very same problem _only_ if the "using_dma" flag in hdparm is enabled. It doesn't only happen with DVDs, but apparently with several other devices such as CD-ROMS, playing MP3s, reading from the /dev/pilot device... My system also freezes, I cannot access it via the network, I can only reboot and when I take a look at the logs there is no clue at all as to what might have happened. I also have a report from a friend of mine who experienced the same problem while burning CDs. It also seemed to ba caused by hdparm.
Are you using hdparm too by any chance? Can you try to reproduce the problem _without_ enabling the flag?
Just my 2 cents. I hope I'm not wasting anybody's time. Now, I'll shut up again and read what you guys have to say, as usual. :-)
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