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Unfortunately, the system locks or even reboots after a few minutes. I experienced the same prob on Suse10.2 and later, but not on Suse10.1.
Is there hope on later kernels or is the bug still present ?
I had the same on my Peg2 with 1GB RAM, running Debian Etch. I upgraded to 2.6.21.4, and that fixed it. But 2.6.18 kernel was highly unstable for me, even without the use of the GBit eth. I changed, and all problems gone:
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charlie@stronghold:~$ uname -a
Linux stronghold 2.6.21.4 #3 Mon Jul 2 13:45:38 CEST 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
charlie@stronghold:~$ uptime
16:29:02 up 29 days, 2:32, 11 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.01
Previous record uptime with 2.6.18 (stock Debian 4.0r0 kernel) was 4 days:
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charlie@stronghold:~$ uprecords | grep 2.6.21 | head -1
1 40 days, 18:46:28 | Linux 2.6.21.4 Thu Jul 26 18:54:27 2007
charlie@stronghold:~$ uprecords | grep 2.6.18 | head -1
6 4 days, 07:21:10 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Sat Jun 2 02:04:48 2007
... and usually it crashed within one day:
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charlie@stronghold:~$ uprecords -m 10000 -B | grep 2.6.18 | grep "0 days" | head -5
14 0 days, 05:05:50 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Sun Jun 24 04:50:09 2007
15 0 days, 07:09:16 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Sat Jun 23 21:37:11 2007
16 0 days, 02:34:38 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Sat Jun 23 18:58:23 2007
17 0 days, 00:52:28 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Sat Jun 23 17:13:59 2007
20 0 days, 00:30:16 | Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Tue Jun 19 19:29:40 2007
Sarge was totally stable on the same machine. So it seems like the some kernel versions (most probably versions between 2.6.15 and 2.6.20?) has serious stability issues on a Pegasos 2...