Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:30:26 -0400 Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.21]:4237 "EHLO isis.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:30:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3B54D8FB.F5EA4B57@uow.edu.au> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:31:55 +1000 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Lessem CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Too much memory causes crash when reading/writing to disk In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:00:54 +1000., <200107171322.HAA245907@ibg.colorado.edu> <3B544516.FF6643E8@uow.edu.au> <200107171615.KAA254078@ibg.colorado.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Lessem wrote: > > >For interest's sake, could you please try booting with the > >`noapic' option, and also send another NMI watchdog trace? > > I tried that, but the Symbios SCSI controller freaks out with noapic. > I can be more detailed if that would be useful. Please do - that sounds like a strange interaction. > I can also try a > non-smp kernel and run the machine with 1 processor and 8GB, if you > think that would be useful in solving the problem. May as well - all data is good data. Can you please send a couple more ksymoops traces from the NMI watchdog trap? Have you tried 2.2.19, 2.4.4 and -ac kernels? - - 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/