Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:37:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:37:11 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:28176 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:36:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Signal 11 To: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:06:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen), rmager@vgkk.com (Rainer Mager), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mvojkovich@valinux.com (Mark Vojkovich) In-Reply-To: <25692.976268767@redhat.com> from "David Woodhouse" at Dec 08, 2000 09:46:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > wrong with it. I've only seen this under 2.3.x/2.4 SMP kernels. I > > would say that this is definitely a kernel problem.=20 > > XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34] > kernels - even on my BP6=B9. The random crashes started to happen when = > I > upgraded my distribution=B2 - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So= > I > suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggeri= > ng > it. Have any of the folks seeing it checked if Ben LaHaise's fixes for the page table updating race help ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/