Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:09:54 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: Bug Report: 2.4.22-pre5: BUG in page_alloc (fwd) |
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:23:53 -0300 (BRT) Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> > > Hello Marcelo, > > > > > > have you seen anything in your tests? My box just froze again after 3 > > > days during NFS action. This was with pre6, I am switching over to pre7. > > > > I managed to freeze the pre7 box within these few hours. There was no nfs > > involved, only tar-to-tape. > > You had NMI on, correct? Sysrq doesnt work, correct?
Yes, that's right.
> > I switched back to 2.4.21 to see if it is still stable. Is there a > > possibility that the i/o-scheduler has another flaw somewhere (just like > > during mount previously) ... > > It might be a problem in the IO scheduler, yes. > > Lets isolate the problems: If 2.4.21 doenst lockup, try 2.4.22-pre7 > without drivers/block/ll_rw_blk{.c,.h} changes.
I am pretty confident that 2.4.21 does not lock up, I tested it long time ago and to my memory it had no problems. Anyway I re-check to make sure the box is still ok.
Can you send me patches off-list to reverse from -pre7. Just to make sure we are talking of the same stuff...
Regards, Stephan
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