On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:54:26 +0300, Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
wrote:


> I tried the same "test" again.  I had another machine pinging the one
> writing to a non-softdep partition.  After writing some 2.5 GB, the
> machine froze for 33 seconds: no ping replies, no activity in shell
> windows - and the hard disk LED was off, so there was no hard disk
> activity, either.  This is what I see on a 2.0 system as well - it looks
> like the machine is dead (no disk activity), but after a while, everything
> returns to normal.
> 
The ping failure strikes me as the oddest part of this.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb