2001-10-12 03:46:16

by Andrea Arcangeli

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Subject: Re: 2.4.7 from updates for SuSE 7.2 - crash.

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:32:16PM +0400, Oleg A. Yurlov wrote:
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> Hi, Hubert, Andrea and all,
>
> My server crashed again...
>
> Symptom: procfs die, processes unaccessible...

could be the down_read recursion. Many bugs are been fixed after 2.4.7.

Can you try if you can reproduce with Hubert's latest kernel based on
2.4.12aa1? thanks!

Andrea


2001-10-12 16:24:47

by Oleg A. Yurlov

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Subject: Re[2]: 2.4.7 from updates for SuSE 7.2 - crash.


Hi, Andrea and all,

Friday, October 12, 2001, 7:45:58 AM, you wrote:

>> Hi, Hubert, Andrea and all,
>>
>> My server crashed again...
>>
>> Symptom: procfs die, processes unaccessible...
AA> could be the down_read recursion. Many bugs are been fixed after 2.4.7.

I know... but 2.4.7.SuSE declared as kernel for production use :-) Some
people in our organization have wanted to install this kernel... |-)

AA> Can you try if you can reproduce with Hubert's latest kernel based on
AA> 2.4.12aa1? thanks!

Now I install this kernel on one SMP server and will install on UP
server in the near future. Uptime about 1 day under heavy load, all Ok :-)

AA> Andrea

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