Got me stumped ...

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Ok, this on has me stumped. I have a MSI motherboard model K7N2 Delta-L
> nForce2 Chipset.
> Has a 2600 AMDXP CPU, 1.5GB ram, Geoforce MX400 Video with 64MB ram and I
> have the latest BIOS in the system.
>
> I am creating a a new install of Slackware 11.0 on a Seagate Barracuda PATA
> 133 Disk. The orignal disk in the system was a Maxtor 80GB.
>
> (Lonnie, this is the machine I went round with on the kernel dev group and
> having a tainted kernel and random lockups).
>
> Ok, the install went flawless. Now I am copying stuff from the 80GB maxtor
> to the Seagate. On of my maxtor partitions is 50GB and has 30GB of data.
> When I start the copy, it randomly (from immediately to 5 - 10 minutes
> into the copy) locks up with the "cp" and pdflush cosuming 50% EACH of
> the CPU cycles and the system doing nothing.
>
> Now, I put BOTH disk on a P4 933Mhz machine with the Intel PX4 Chipset
> and the copy went flawlessly.

Which kernel version are you using?
What does dmesg look like when the system gets into this state?


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