Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271665AbTGRBEg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:04:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271666AbTGRBEg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:04:36 -0400 Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.43]:29318 "EHLO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271665AbTGRBEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:04:35 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [62.254.0.11] From: To: Oleg Drokin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: lots of oopses with recent kernels Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 1:19:30 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030718011930.ZALH2652.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.137.100.63]> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1780 Lines: 45 > > From: Oleg Drokin > Date: 2003/07/17 Thu AM 10:13:38 GMT > To: steven.newbury1@ntlworld.com > CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: lots of oopses with recent kernels > > Hello! > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:35:55PM +0000, steven.newbury1@ntlworld.com wrote: > > > I am using gcc version 3.3 20030623 (Red Hat Linux 3.3-12) > > so that may be to blame... > > ...but I have received the bellow oopses while copying files to a "Device-Mapper" striped device with > > 'tar cf - . | tar - -C /mnt/tmp' > > oops1: reiserfs format device (with BadRAM patch) > > oops2: ext2/3 format device (with BadRAM patch) > > oops3: reiserfs format device (with mem=320M BadRAM patch > > removed. > > Sigh, I see lots of times your kernel jumps at random addresses for no good reason. > (like in 2 out of your four oopses you attached). > Have you tried to compile without CONFIG_PREEMPT just to see if it will be any better? > > Bye, > Oleg > Part of the problem is due to a bug in my BadRAM patch though I am unable to find it. :-( Any chance any of the oopses pointed to anything w.r.t. the BadRAM patch? I am now running with CONFIG_PREEMT=n and without BadRAM. I don't trust my Promise IDE controller, it might also be causing problems, I am getting IDE errors off of it with the Barracuda's. I have ordered a new one, which should arrive in the morning (Friday). I will let you know how it goes... ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/