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English => en_Linux => Topic started by: brainslug on September 22, 2005, 08:39:36 AM

Title: Linux freezes when calculating md4
Post by: brainslug on September 22, 2005, 08:39:36 AM

I recently added some mpeg files i ripped from a dvd to my shared folder and
now each time i start amule it indexes a couple of these new files and then
freezes the whole system (ie. dead mouse, keyboard etc).
I am running aMule 2.0.3 on Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.12. The shared folder is
located on an nfs-shared XFS partition on top of an 2 disk LVM volume.

Any clues on how to debug this?

Title: Re: Linux freezes when calculating md4
Post by: thedude0001 on September 22, 2005, 09:38:26 AM

A good starting point would be to get the NFS out of the way as I have experienced problems with NFS when dealing with accessing many small files over NFS. Copy the files to a local harddisk and see if you can hash them.

Title: Re: Linux freezes when calculating md4
Post by: brainslug on September 22, 2005, 10:46:51 AM

Yes,  I have amule running on the nfs server, so the files really are local
to the program. I suspect it might be a filesystem issue or maybe a defect ram chip.

Title: Re: Linux freezes when calculating md4
Post by: stefanero on September 22, 2005, 12:46:59 PM

well so get a knoppix and do a memcheck ;)

or maybe you are out of memory while calculation the md5sum....

Title: Re: Linux freezes when calculating md4
Post by: brainslug on September 23, 2005, 10:33:04 AM

Yep,  a hardware problem seems likely since i have managed to crash the pc a couple of times
now running memtest. Thanks for the input.

 :)