Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:02:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:02:02 -0400 Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]:23048 "EHLO zikova.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:01:47 -0400 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: "Gary White (Network Administrator)" Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:00:51 MET-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: VMWare crashes CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 Message-ID: <82677BD2F89@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9 Jul 01 at 9:49, Gary White (Network Administr wrote: > I realize this may be a VMWare problem, but I just waited to > bring this to the attention of the developers in case it was related > to the kernel and to also see if anyone else is having the same > problem. VMWare dies under load with all kernel versions up to and > including ac versions after 2.4.6. Kernel version up to and including > 2.4.5-ac15 I know all run fine. Somewhere between 2.4.5-ac15 and 2.4.6 > is where the problem started. I have backed up to 2.4.5 now and VMWare > is rock solid. > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070 > printing eip: > e1af85e1 > Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] Could you feed these oopeses through ksymoops? I'm now running vmware 24h/day with linux and win98 as guest, doing network transfers between host and guest, and I did not noticed any problems. It worked fine with 2.4.5-ac24 from wednesday to sunday, and yesterday I upgraded to 2.4.6-ac2, and it still works. Kernel compiled with Debian's gcc-3.0-3 or gcc-3.0-4, Asus A7V, KT133, 1GHz Athlon, and Chaintech 6BTM, 440BX, 300MHz Celeron... I did not tested Linus's kernel for more than 6 months now, so I cannot tell whether it works with Linus's 2.4.6, or not... Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz - 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/