Linux lockups :(

[Snowman42]

Howdy,
I'm running a dual celeron 400, 128Mb ram, 8mb ATI agp video, dual realtek NICs (8029 and 8139), and a crystal 4232 sound card. The machine runs RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14 (moving to .18 soon), the latest apache/mod-perl, and helix-gnome/sawfish under x. the problem is this: it locks up.
and never when I'm sitting at the machine, it locks up when I'm asleep at night and can't tell what's causing it. I'm wondering if anyone here can help me track down what's causing the machine to die in its sleep once or twice a month.

[ovf]

I don't think you can use APM in a multiprocessor system, but if you can I'd start by disabling it in the kernel and BIOS. I'd also disable the screen saver. Then I'd monitor the system resources, especially swap space, while the system is running. Are you running any cron jobs at night? Did you build the kernel by hand or as part of an automated installation? Do you have any other OSs installed?


[This message has been edited by ovf (edited 16 December 2000).]

[This message has been edited by ovf (edited 16 December 2000).]

[Snowman42]

APM is disabled in both, I disabled the screensaver, and I'll watch that. it doesn't appear to be running out of swap space, and as far as I can tell, CRON runs ok. the only OS on the box is RH 6.2

and the kernel is the default smp with the RH install.

[This message has been edited by Snowman42 (edited 16 December 2000).]

[Evil Jeff]

I have the same damn problem in both drake 7.2 and debian potato and woody. I've tried killing bios apm and apmd, killing the screensaver, etc, but it always freezes overnight (or whenever I leave it for more than an hour). Never freezes though when at the cli. Just can't leave it in x while I'm away.

Evil Jeff
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