Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:54:39 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10) |
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:49:17 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, you seem to be getting random memory corruption and I have no idea > > > > > > what the hell maybe causing it. > > > > > > Andrea? Andrew? Alan? _Any_ helpful comments? > > > > Not really, sorry. Ugly. > > > > What was the last kernel which didn't crash? > > > > You're showing a huge set of reiserfs diffs there, mostly cosmetic though. > > > > Running memtest86 for 12 hours is needed. > > > > Going back to the last-known-kernel would be useful, just to verify that > > the hardware is still good (some connector could have become resistive, or > > the power supply could have drifted, etc). > > > > Would it be possible to try a different filesystem on that box? > > > > Do we know of other people who are using late 2.4 kernels on server-grade > > hardware? If so, are they doing OK? > > I can give you this additional info: > I tried about everything back to 2.4.21 release, and even this crashes on the > box. BUT it is _not_ the only box I can crash 2.4.21. I have another hardware > (also SMP) based not on Serverworks but on VIA chipset and with no 64 bit pci > and it crashes with 2.4.21 around every 10 - 20 days. It definitely does not > with 2.4.19.
Do you have any traces of the other box crash?
> The only requirement for my usual test-box is a working tg3 driver for the GBit > ethernet link.
> Ah yes, and from the long series of tests I can tell that the box won't crash > with UP kernel. I can re-check that with rc1 if this is useful.
Okey. Thats useful information. How hard would it be for you to try ext3 as the filesystem (as Andrew suggested) ?
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