Machine freezes with Tux

Hi!!

I am using Tux with the tux2-full-2.4.18-final-A3 patch on a 2.4.18 kernel
with Rik Van Riel's VM patch.
The Document root is on a Reiserfs partition. The machine has 2 CPU's and I
make it run 2 threads of TUX.

I need to generate hourly logs for Webtrends, hence I have a cron job
running every hour which cats >> the native tux
log to another file and then converts it to W3C format using the tux2w3c
conversion tool.

I realised the moment I do the above the machine just freezes.....I can ping
to the box but I can't open a shell on it.
I have to call the data centre to get the box rebooted. Even the messages
log doesn't give any clue.

For now I have reverted back to Apache 1.3.24...but it just isn't as fast as
TUX

I was facing the same problems on 2.4.17 and I thought maybe upgrading the
kernel and the TUX patch would
solve the problem...but that is not the case......

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks & Regards,
Anish Srivastava