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From: "kyle" <kylewong@southa.com>
To: "Robert Hancock" <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
References: <fa.n+5Mb4OrI3NXIfyW+9Do6h0Q2UA@ifi.uio.no> <45874FC3.503@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:28:46 +0800
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hancock" <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: "kyle" <kylewong@southa.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value


> kyle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently my mysql servershows something like:
>> Dec 18 18:24:05 sql kernel: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value 
>> ffffffff from c0284efd
>> Dec 18 18:24:36 sql last message repeated 19939 times
>> Dec 18 18:25:37 sql last message repeated 33392 times
>>

> The message means some code in the kernel or in some module passed a 
> negative value to schedule_timeout which it shouldn't have. The c0284efd 
> value is the address of the function that made the call - you may be able 
> to look that up in your /proc/ksyms or the System.map file and figure out 
> what function that is..

There was no module loaded, and unfortunlately, I cannot find the System.map 
or /proc/ksyms file for the affected kernel!
Anyway thank you for your explanation. I have upgraded the kernel to 
2.6.17.14 and wish that it can fix the problem. Thank you

Kyle 

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