Re: HELP! stable 2.7 hangs at irregular intervals

[Martin <martin_(_at_)_mediax_(_dot_)_com>]

Michael Samuel wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Kagan Kongar wrote:
>
>
> > 1. The hangs are not related to the NIC. 3c509, Etherexprespro, rtl8139,
> > rtl8129 were tested, nothing changed.
>
> What about MII controllers?  As far as I can tell, all of those cards
> need MII drivers. (And I've read reports from de and dc driver users
> too)

3com and tulipclone needs MII drivers. On my home system, I removed all 
of them except the exphy that my dc0 was using.

> > 4. The hangs are triggered by a memory allocation routine from TCP/IP stack. No
> > further info.
>
> Increasing NMBCLUSTERS didn't help for me..

My only real hang problems thus far have been pcvt or whatever related. 
IE, the console freezes 'cause I have a box on a KVM. I'll have to think 
about moving to current, to get wscons... How much of the tree do I have 
to rebuild if I build a CURRENT kernel?