Re: Processes stuck in D state..

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@xxxxxxxxx>]

RedHat directly.  Tried i386 and i686 kernels for systems.  Both had the 
same problem.  Symptoms were either lockup of the machine with the IDE HDD 
activity light stuck on but absolutely no other response, or the machine 
powers off.  So it seems like an ACPI or IDE/ACPI/APM issue.  This did not 
occur in older kernels as far as I can tell.  Just in the 2.4.20-18+.
--On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 21:36 +0200 Simon Matter 
<simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The whole redhat 2.4.20 kernel is crap.  I've had a number of boxes
> > lockup on it.  Initially it was the firewall, but then at home I've had
> > other boxes lock up under load with it.  2.4.20-19.x got a little better
> > but was still totally screwed up.  Going to a stock 2.4.20 fixed all the
> > issues I've been having.
> I have my own patched set of 2.4.20-19.9.SGI_XFS_1.2.0 kernels which
> perform very well on several servers from RedHat 7.2 to RedHat 9. One
> RedHat 9 box is a dual Xeon 2.8G, 4G ram and lot's of disks, running two
> quite big, heavily loaded SAP-DB instances on XFS, on top of LVM. Others
> are running Cyrus-IMAPd mailservers, Samba, whatever. If the kernels were
> crap, I knew it for sure. Where did you get your kernels from?
>
> > The root of this one is IMHO RH 2.4.20 is actually 2.4.21-pre3 plus a
> > mass of patches.