Random Lock-Ups [SOLVED]

Liviu · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:14 am Post subject: Random Lock-Ups [SOLVED]

Hi!

I set up myself a gentoo Router. It`s a P3/533 , 128MB Ram, 120GB Harddisk.
Works fine so far. Some days ago i wanted to have it download my bittorrents instead of my desktop.
I installed Bittornado and started downloading .. works for 1-5 minutes, then my whole Box crashes.
I found out that the last log entry before it crashes is "Jan 11 10:52:21 tux spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

Everything else works so far .. i even downgraded to a stable application branch .. i was using ~x86 all the time

I tried to find out if it was a heat-specific issue .. i let burnMMX and burnP5 run overnight .. it didn`t crash.

So does anybody know what`s wrong with my machine ?

I searched the forums but didn`t find something useful

thanks!

Liviu · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:59 am Post subject:

ok, i reinstalled my box and now it crashes randomly .. some minutes ago it crashed when emerging.
How can i find out what`s the reason for these crashes? What`s a general method for tracing crash reasons ?

what is that spurious ack all about ??

i noticed it happens after i log in via ssh

Kingmilo · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

Could be a hardware error if you have done a reinstall.
Maybe try checking the system health of your hardrives?

Liviu · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:02 am Post subject:

hmm

actually i swapped the harddrive when reinstalling. So this might not be the error`s source.

Kingmilo · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:29 am Post subject:

The only other thing I can think of is a IRQ conflict.
Look in the BIOS to see if there is any conflict.

This is an interesting post which talks about disabling ACPI in the kernel which could make sense;
[url]
http://jmz.iki.fi/blog.php/en/article/1057989236[/url]

try it out

Liviu · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:45 am Post subject:

since my box is headless .. looking into the BIOS is a little bit tricky but i could get a screen from somewhere

I`ll try that with acpi

Liviu · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject:

mh i think i tracked it down to the 2nd ethernet card i have installed. It`s a SMC Etherpower 10/100 . Was using the Kernel drivers.
I realized that i actually don`t need a 2nd network card for pppoe heh ..

so i took out the driver out of the kernel and now no lockups .. bittornado running for half an hour or so.
The other one is a Realtek 8139

Liviu · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

Ok this seems to be solved then .. i got bittornado downoading me 15 files at the moment and mldonkey leeching some files from edonkey network .. ssh lags as hell

but it doesn`t lockup.

SMC Etherpower 10/100 has caused the lockups.

Kingmilo · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:00 am Post subject:

Excellent, so the conflict was with that specific NIC probably.
Glad you solved it

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Cocker68 · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

Liviu · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

ssh lagged because the box was a little bit overloaded

hehe downloading about 16 torrents is a little bit too much for an old p5-533 with 128mb ram .. it was already swapping about 150 Megs to disk