[KLUG Hardware] re: New install with odd results.

[Mike Williams]

>From: "Jeremy Leonard" <lists at elite4god.com>
>Subject: [KLUG Hardware] New install with odd results.
>
>I've been trying to install Linux on a server I just aquired.
>550mhz PIII
>512mb ram
>4 9gb hardware raid5
>
>Anyway, here's whats happening:
>
>The install will work fine If I don't let it wait for long at any of the prompts.
>
>Once it's installed it will boot up just fine with no errors.
>
>Once the system is up however it starts to leak memory. It does this until the system runs out of memory.
>
>I've configured 2gb of swap and it just fills it up.
>
>If I load top and watch it's a different process each time.
>Sometimes init.
>Sometimes gpm.
>Sometime yast.
>It always happens and it starts imediatly. I've tried both Runlevel 3 and 5.
>I've tried Redhat 9, SUSE 9,9.1 and Suse Enterprise 8.0.
>Same results on all distros.
>
>I'm starting to think it may be a hardware issue however this system runs NetWare 6.5 and WIndows 2000/2003 servers just fine.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Jeremy Leonard
>  
>
OK, that's officially weird.  Wild guess:  a flaky RAID card driver.  Or 
maybe something strange in a kernel optimization for the motherboard 
chipset.  How about some more details like motherboard, RAID card, and such?