Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:59:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:59:36 -0500 Received: from ferret.phonewave.net ([208.138.51.183]:49676 "EHLO tarot.mentasm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:59:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:28:38 -0800 (PST) From: ferret@phonewave.net To: "Mohammad A. Haque" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Can you tell us what controller chipset you have (output of lspci should be fine) and if your hard drive has DMA or uDMA enabled? There have been a few other reports of oopsen and fs corruption during periods of high interrupt activity. Mine seems to occur whenever I saturate my local network with traffic to/from the machine, but it is fine if I turn DMA off (using hdparm -d0 /dev/hda) On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Hey guys, > > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity > in test12? > > I was able to grab the tail end of an oops. Probably not too usefull. > > Code: 89 42 04 89 10 b8 01 00 00 00 07 43 04 00 00 00 00 c7 03 00 > Aiee, killing interrupt handler > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! > In interrupt handler - not syncing. > > If I Alt+SysRq+s I get more oops (only tails again) and if I do it > enough times it hits a BUG and reboots immediately. > -- > > ===================================================================== > Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ > mhaque@haque.net > > "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Project Lead > Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://wm.themes.org/ > batmanppc@themes.org > ===================================================================== > > - > 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/ > - 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/