Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932270AbVISBBX (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:01:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbVISBBX (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:01:23 -0400 Received: from mailgw.aecom.yu.edu ([129.98.1.16]:8118 "EHLO mailgw.aecom.yu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932270AbVISBBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:01:22 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:03:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Maurice Volaski Subject: Re: Segfaults in mkdir under high load. Software or hardware? Cc: andrew@walrond.org, bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 27 At 6:00 AM -0500 9/18/05, linux-kernel-daily-digest-request@lists.us.dell.com wrote: > > >> I have been seeing a similar thing: >> >> ./current:Sep 17 18:00:01 [kernel] mkdir[7696]: segfault at >> 0000000000000000 rip 000000000040184d rsp 00007fffff826350 error 4 >> >> I'm using the plain 2.6.13 (from gentoo vanilla sources), though it >> was compiled with >> gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8) > >x86_64 ? If so see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851 Dual Opteron, and this looks like my issue. It recommends echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space but that has not stopped it from happening, so I'll probably wait for the patch to get merged. -- Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University - 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/