Unable to start new processes

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:40:32PM -0700, Chris MacDonald wrote:
> When I'd originally posted about the problem, it was occurring on
> D945GCLF2s, same RAM, same flash drives, but 10.04. On that exact same
> hardware I've installed 9.10 and haven't had a problem, those machines
> have been online for over two months straight. Running 10.04, I'd be
> lucky if they'd last two days. These were also formatted ext3 (both
> 9.10 and 10.04). Now I'm testing on D510MOs, same RAM, same flash
> drives, 10.10, ext4 and I'm experiencing the same problem.
> 
> Part of the reason I started on the Ubuntu users list was because the
> error was only appearing with 10.04. Now with 10.10 producing errors
> as well, I'm still inclined to believe it was something in the kernel
> changing after 9.10. I'm setting up a test that will put a platter HDD
> in an enclosure on the USB bus to see if perhaps it's something in the
> kernel's usb implementation that disagrees with the hardware.

Wasn't dpkg changed in 10.04 to do a sync() after every package
installation?  That could increase the number of writes being made to
the filesystem.  Enough to trigger errors?  I don't know.

I don't suppose those USB drives support SMART and would tell you the
number of erase cycles they've experienced?  (System -> Administration
-> Disk Tool)

Marius Gedminas
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