[7174] in testers
Re: kernel Oops on Linux 9.4.9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Fri Jun 17 21:52:28 2005
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:52:16 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
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Kevin Chen wrote:
> I generally run a copy of top and xload, and both showed the load average
> gradually increasing immediately after this happened. Other than being
> able to move the mouse, though, the system became unresponsive, and
> nothing happened after I entered the password upon ssh'ing in as root
> (though a ROOT LOGIN message did pop up on the console). Unfortunately,
> another window (that I could not move out of the way) covered the relevant
> portion of the top window, so I could not see what (if top showed
> anything) was causing the problem.
The load average increasing and my system becoming unresponsive may be
unrelated. 20 minutes after I restarted, I encountered
http://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/bugs/26073 (because I had forgotten to
start my script to automatically kill sshd processes that appeared to be
triggering that problem).
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
