Re: {bb} System Hangs

[Andrew Davis <andrew@nccomp.com>]

If that is the case, I don't think there is a "enable or disable X" 
answer. RedHat is known for customizing and modularizing their kernels, 
as well as backports and all sorts of other goodies (not that other 
distros don't do the same, RH just does more of it). If recompiling the 
kernel is the answer, get it kernel.org, do an audit of your devices and 
compile a custom kernel with just what you need to support your 
hardware. RH never ships the latest, greatest kernel anyway, so if 
there's a bug in your existing one, it'll likely be fixed in the latest, 
greatest one available at kernel.org.

At this point, I must confess that I don't remember what the original 
complaint was. Perhaps some log or error file output would help us help 
you...

AD

Charles Jones wrote:

> I think he meant to define "rebuilding the kernel".  As in...if you 
> simply compile your own kernel and choose all the default options, does 
> that fix the problem? I think the response he is looking for is to 
> recompile his kernel and to enable or disable option X which causes the 
> problem.
>
> -Charles
>
> Philip Clark wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:21, Wray Cason wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > This is not a very fulfilling answer.  FC2 has an entirely different kernel
> > > then RH9 or RH7.3.  You say to rebuild the kernel, do you mean rebuild the
> > > stock kernel of the vanilla kernel?  I doubt that any problem BB has with RH9
> > > has any relevance to BB on FC2.
> > >    
> >
> > The original poster sent a follow-up to qualify this. It is Red Hat 9
> > that he is having problems with.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > By the way, I have had problems with a couple of my BB systems running RH9. 
> > > It seems to be memory related in some fashion since none of my machines with
> > > at least 256mb ram are affected.  These systems have ram <= 128mb.  These
> > > systems sometimes experience increasing cpu load averages and the hard drive
> > > goes nuts with activity.  It gets progressively worse until I reboot.  It can
> > > get so bad that sshd can't respond.  Anyway, that is my interest in this
> > > discussion.
> > >    
> >
> > The list archives are the best place to look. IIRC the closest anyone
> > got to the cause were some "bleeding edge" changes to signal handling
> > that Red Hat saw fit to include. Some folks managed to get by using
> > the ZOMBIE flag when compiling BB. Building your own kernel appears
> > to be the most effective solution however.
> >
> > Cheers, Phil.
> >
> >
> >  

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