2002-09-26 07:22:39

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre10aa4 OOPS in ext3 (get_hash_table, unmap_underlying_metadata)

Michael Clark wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> Been having frequent (every 4-8 days) oopses with 2.4.19pre10aa4 on
> a moderately loaded server (100 users - 0.4 load avg).
>
> The server is a Intel STL2 with dual P3, 1GB RAM, Intel Pro1000T
> and Qlogic 2300 Fibre channel HBA.
>
> We are running qla2300, e1000 and lvm modules unmodified as present in
> 2.4.19pre10aa4. We also have quotas enabled on 1 of the ext3 fs.
>

It's not familiar, sorry.

People are saying unkind things about the qlogic driver, and
the new version in Andrea's latest patchset is definitely
faster than before. Might be worth a shot.