[Gllug] Help with a kernel crash

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 16:02, John Edwards wrote:

> 
> The qmail logs show that mail was being processed at the time of the 
> kernel crash. One mail at 02:01:02 was accepted and delivered and the 
> next at 02:02:14 was accepted but not delivered locally. Mail is setup 
> to be delivered by qmail into users' Maildirs.
> 
> Another thing that could be relavent is RAM is 256MB and swap space is 
> 260MB. Current memory load is:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        256212     252728       3484          0      56616     167244
> -/+ buffers/cache:      28868     227344
> Swap:       262040        124     261916
> Total:      518252     252852     265400
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

It doesn't look like swap size is a problem for you,
but we are definitely sticking to the old rule of swap 2x real memory
size. 
I saw a pointer yesterday to some comments Linus made a long time ago,
with the early 2.4 series, about large swaps being good.

We're running a 2.4.9 kernel as standard (yes I know...)

My own gut feeling would be to try compiling your own kernel,
for that machine. 


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