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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:36:38 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Claudio Martins <ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
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       Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron
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Claudio Martins wrote:
> On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>Suggest you boot with `nmi_watchdog=0' to prevent the nmi watchdog from
>>cutting in during long sysrq traces.
>>
>>Also, capture the `sysrq-m' output so we can see if the thing is out of
>>memory.
> 
> 
>   Hi Andrew,
> 
>   Thanks for the tip. I booted with nmi_watchdog=0 and was able to get a full 
> sysrq-t as well as a sysrq-m. Since it might be a little too big for the 
> list, I've put it on a text file at:
> 
>  http://193.136.132.235/dl145/dump1-2.6.12-rc2.txt
> 
>  I also made a run with the mempool-can-fail patch from Nick Piggin. With this 
> I got some nice memory allocation errors from the md threads when the trouble 
> started. The dump (with sysrq-t and sysrq-m included) is at:
> 
>  http://193.136.132.235/dl145/dump2-2.6.12-rc2-nick1.txt
> 
>  Let me know if you find it more convenient to send the dumps by mail or 
> something. Hope this helps.
> 

Itried to get these just now, but couldn't.

Would you gzip them and send them to me privately?

Thanks,
Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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