Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270632AbTGUSCI (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:02:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270680AbTGUSCI (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:02:08 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:34268 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270677AbTGUSBY (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:01:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:23:53 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: mason@suse.com, andrea@suse.de, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maillist@jg555.com Subject: Re: Bug Report: 2.4.22-pre5: BUG in page_alloc (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20030721170517.1dd1f910.skraw@ithnet.com> Message-ID: References: <1058297936.4016.86.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030718112758.1da7ab03.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030718145033.5ff05880.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030721104906.34ae042a.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030721170517.1dd1f910.skraw@ithnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1591 Lines: 44 On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:49:06 +0200 > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:14:15 -0300 (BRT) > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > I have just started stress testing a 8way OSDL box to see if I can > > > reproduce the problem. I'm using pre6+axboes BH_Sync patch. > > > > > > I'm running 50 dbench clients on aic7xxx (ext2) and 50 dbench clients on > > > DAC960 (ext3). Lets see what happens. > > > > > > After lunch I'll keep looking at the oopses. During the morning I only had > > > time to setup the OSDL box and start the tests. > > > > Hello Marcelo, > > > > have you seen anything in your tests? My box just froze again after 3 days > > during NFS action. This was with pre6, I am switching over to pre7. > > I managed to freeze the pre7 box within these few hours. There was no nfs > involved, only tar-to-tape. You had NMI on, correct? Sysrq doesnt work, correct? > I switched back to 2.4.21 to see if it is still stable. Is there a > possibility that the i/o-scheduler has another flaw somewhere (just like > during mount previously) ... It might be a problem in the IO scheduler, yes. Lets isolate the problems: If 2.4.21 doenst lockup, try 2.4.22-pre7 without drivers/block/ll_rw_blk{.c,.h} changes. - 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/