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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Kevin Easton <s3159795@student.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19 OOPS in kswapd __remove_from_queues
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:16:37 +0200
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:53, Kevin Easton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 17:55:31 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> > 
> > Did you try the patch below?  What happened, if anything?
> 
> [snip kswapd oops & patch]
> 
> Yes.. unfortunately, since I posted the original patch, I've seen multiple 
> oopsen in several different places.  I should probably mention here that I'm
> running the pdc202xx.c driver as a plain IDE controller, with linux software
> RAID-1 and ext3 on that.  The instability seems to trigger after copying
> a large amount of data to the partitions on that RAID array (several hundred
> MB usually).  When I copy data to a drive that's on the other (plain VIA) 
> motherboard IDE controller, it doesn't trigger a crash.

Probably not the VM then.  How about reformatting the raid volume with another
filesystem such as ReiserFS or JFS, with a view to eliminating the possibility
that Ext3/jbd is the cause.

-- 
Daniel
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