Hello everybody,
For quite a while now I have problems with my alpha-PC164 running RH6.2. From
time to time, the machine locks himself up completly, no ping-reply anymore,
just a hard reset helps.
In search of a problem I did nearly everything that came to my mind: Stock
RH6.2 distribution with original kernel, recompile 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2
kernel, ripping out every card I have in my computer (S3-video, SCSI Adaptech
AH29xxx, SBlaster, Network-card).
After a while I found that everytime I copied large amounts of data from the
network to my HD (SCSI or IDE, no matter), the computer hangs. So, if I copy
cp /mnt/nfs/redhat-7.0-disc1.iso /var/tmp
and do a
ls -R /
at the same time, usually after 2-5 secs, the computer hangs. Under X it
takes a bit longer. Changing the network-card from NE2000-PCI to NE2000-ISA
and a 3Com PCI-card didn't change anything. (all 10MB-cards)
The same thing goes for NFS, SAMBA and FTP. Every time there is a heavy
net-traffic, the computer hangs completly.
It only got a little bit better after having compiled the NFS and SAMBA
directly into the kernel, instead of having them as modules (it helped with
sound, though ;-) Instead of hanging after 5MByte, it hung after 200MByte.
Still not enough for a redhat-iso!
This only crashes if I copy it from my local server (an i386 with Linux
2.4.1 or something. Long time I didn't touch it anymore ;-) Copying from the
web over my cable at 50KBytes/s is no problem...
Reading through the archives, I found the tip to enable PCI-QUIRKS in the
kernel. But as 2.4.2 doesn't have PCI-QUIRKS anymore (or am I blind?), I
wonder what shall I do?
Thanx in advance if someone is able to help me,
greets
ineiti
PS: And this is Linus GASSER, not THORVALDS. Just in case you wonder...
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