fc3t2 - a hard lockup of system during use

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:55:25PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > Just had a hard lockup of system during use (desktop), the hdd kept
> > trashing. ctrl+alt+backspace had to effect, nor switching to console.
> > There's nothing about this in /var/log/messages or Xorg.log.
> 
> What's your CPU?  Not a Via C3 by any chance?

One of my Athlon64 test sets does similar sounding things - it suddenely
runs out of memory and dies. From the bits I got beforehand it looks like
yum blew up in my case