Panic under heavy HTTP load?

[Henrik W Lund]

Subhro wrote:
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> <snip>
> 
> Tell us something about your hardware. Are you running a stock kernel? Any
> non standard optimizations employed while recompiling in case you are not
> running stock stuff?
> 
> Regards
> S. 
> 
> Subhro Sankha Kar
> Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
> Salt Lake City
> PIN 700091
> India

I'm running on an Asus K8V mobo with 1GB of RAM distributed on two 
Corsair DIMMs, one on each bus. I'm running a custom kernel (i.e. I've 
taken out support for hardware I don't have, and added sound support), 
but I don't build with any optimizations, not even O1.

I managed to reproduce the freeze just hours ago, under conditions that 
were different enough from when I first encountered it to make me draw 
the conclusion that the only common denominator is gtk-gnutella (or one 
of the libraries on which it depends - when I installed it, the only 
thing it required that I didn't already have on my system was icu). 
This, in turn, leads me to believe that the freezes aren't (necessarily) 
HTTP related (or even network related at all).

The above paragraph seems to indicate that there is something in either 
icu or gtk-gnutella that freezes the system (I know it's the entire 
system and not just X because I tried to ssh into the box when it froze 
the last time - no go). I haven't found the trigger yet, as it took me 
quite a while to reproduce the freeze (typical, eh? The system freezes 
when you least expect it, but when you /try/ to freeze it, it just keeps 
flowing).

I don't even know if this is exclusive to amd64, or if other platforms 
might experience this as well. :-(

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Henrik W Lund