my Pogo Pro freezes (and not cauz full disk...)

[ScanxTaz]

Hi everybody,

Ok, It's not really good what I'm doing but when I launch rTorrent on my Pogo Pro, it works 5 minutes, but after a while, it freezes totally, and I've no access through SSH back.

The only thing I can do is to deplug the Pogo and restart it totally to get back an access.

I think about a "Trashing", but I don't know how to verify it as i've havent any access on the machine.

Thanks for your help,

ScanxTaz

[WarheadsSE]

Series of ?s:
1) have you done an fsck on the rootfs yet?
2) what kind of disk is the rootfs on?
3) do you have a swap file made/in use?

I have seen this happen to me once, when my swap file killed several sectors of the flash drive I had it on, and I have also seen this happen when more than the available ram was asked for by multiple programs at once.

To do the fsck you will need to attach the disk to another computer, because you can't safely run fsck on a mounted fs.

[ScanxTaz]

thank you, will try to do it...

MY rootfs is mounted on a Cruzer usb flashdisk, and I don't have any swap file...
I've tried many times to create one, but Pogo limits the creation to 80 Mo (I don't know why), and 80Mo... I thought it was unuseful because too small....

[WarheadsSE]

I still strongly suggest against a swap file on a usb drive, but it should not have limited it to 80MB.

[ScanxTaz]

Hi WarheadSe...

In fact, when I try to build the file with dd, it gives me this error :

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[root@alarm ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.swap bs=512M count=1
dd: memory exhausted by input buffer of size 536870912 bytes (512 MiB)
')

And I didn't find how to create the file anyway...

(Sorry for this noob's question...)

[WarheadsSE]

You've got those parameters wrong:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512

You were telling it to create a block in memory of 512MB of zeros, then write that to disk.