linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc1, timebomb?

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Message-id: <200610211110.51894.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:10:51 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1, timebomb?

On Saturday 21 October 2006 02:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Saturday 21 October 2006 01:03, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>>On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:37:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I guess I'm 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' Until that time,
>>> everything seems normal.  But I did just note that 'fam' is using up
>>> to 99.3% of the cpu, which is unusual considering that amanda is
>>> also running, and its usually gtar thats the hog.  This is according
>>> to htop.
>>
>>I've had a few spontaneous restarts (which actually might have been
>>shutdowns, any key press will make the machine up so a power down when
>>working would probably look like a restart).
>>
>>I've assumed these were heat related, mostly because they also
>>occurred when the CPU was working hard and the weather has been pretty
>>warm lately.
>
>These may be related.  But I'm not convinced weather has anything to do
>with it.  The cpu is running about 120F, and is busier by quite a few
>processes than it was when the last failure occured.
>
>The 'fam' that was using 99.3% of the cpu, and which disappeared when I
>sent it a SIGHUP, has not returned, and amanda has completed her nightly
>chores without any hiccups.  It was not started as a service and is unk
> to getting a status report from it.  So I'm wondering just where it fits
> in the grand scheme of things?
>
Further addendum:  Another shutdown this morning, and the only line in the 
log is the 3rd one here:

Oct 21 07:42:18 coyote kernel: usb 3-2.1: reset low speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 3
Oct 21 07:51:39 coyote kernel: usb 3-2.1: reset low speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 3
Oct 21 08:01:01 coyote kernel: eth0: link down. <<------<<<
Oct 21 10:53:12 coyote syslogd 1.4.1: restart.

Thats a microsoft wireless mouse it keeps resetting, and I hadn't been in 
the room in 2+ hours.  My logs are littered with that message, but the 
mouse itself works fine.  I'd estimate that the mouse reset is over 90% of 
the content of my messages logs, and has been since back around 2.6.16 
days.  The batteries are fine.

I'm back to 2.6.18, but will build 2.6.19-rc2 shortly.

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