Re: HELP! stable 2.7 hangs at irregular intervals

[Michael Samuel <michael_(_at_)_miknet_(_dot_)_net>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:56:43PM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> What you describe sounds like a system that is thrashing (spending
> all its time paging things in and out due to a lack of real memory).
> If when this happens you notice lots of disk activity you are most
> likely thrashing and you need to add more memory to the machine.

I just encountered the problem again on the weekend.  It's got 128MB
of RAM, and when I last checked, only about 16MB was being used.  No
swap was being used, but I don't really have any userland processes
running, so if it is thrashing, it's in kernel space.

Sometimes it's just IPF that's crashing, so an 'ipf -D' and an
'ipf -E -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules' puts it back to normal.  Other times
the machine completely dies.

Is anyone encountering this problem without IPFilter running?

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Michael Samuel <michael_(_at_)_miknet_(_dot_)_net>