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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:12:18 +0100
From: ChristopherHuhn <c.huhn@gsi.de>
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CC: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>, Walter Schoen <w.schoen@GSI.de>
Subject: Re: Kernel Bug at spinlock.h ?!
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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

>Sounds like possible memory corruption (can you vouch for the reliability 
>of your RAM?) 
>
The similar problem occurs on many of our machines, so I would exclude 
memory corruption.

>Might be worthwhile posting the oops in it's entirety. Is 
>EIP normally in __run_timers? Do you run a heavy networking load?
>
The numbers crunched by these machines are loaded from and writtem to 
the net, so I would assume that.

We had these machines running potato with 2.2.21 since last summer and 
the kernel never oopsed.

Due to this fact I expect this to be a bug in the SMP code of 2.4.20 or 
a kernel misconfiguration by us.

I'll send the next oops as soon as it occurs.

Kind regards,

Christopher


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