Steven Cole wrote:

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binutils version is 2.12.90.0.15 for Mandrake 9.0.

Thanks.
 

BTW, I did a make mrproper on the gcc 3.2 box, retrieved the .config,
recompiled, and got the very same "section type conflict" error as
before.

After running the gcc 2.96 2.5.44-mm2 for a while longer, I started up
dbench and ran some an increasing client load up to 24 clients.  I
started a new Konsole in KDE and the system hung, not even responding to
pings. That failure was repeatable once, but after those two hangs which
required a hard reset, the system was able to run dbench 32 and launch
new Konsoles without hanging.  Non-deterministic behavior is so much
fun.

You're on SMP, yes?  Please test with Hugh's "[PATCH] mm mremap freeze"
patch applied.

But it should have responded to pings even if deadlocked there.

Are you using "nmi_watchdog=1"?
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