Re: busy usenet server: only stable kernel is 2.6.12-mm1, rest (including 2.6.13-rc4*) barfs within a few days

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 09:47:18AM +0000, Danny ter Haar wrote:
> A tyan AMD64 opteron machine functioning as a usenet gateway really
> pumps some traffic a day (http://newsgate.newsserver.nl)
> Incoming traffic comes through a optical gig-E card (acenic)
> and local traffic is fed to our spool boxes through cupper gig-E
> (tigon3). Machine uses adaptec onboard scsi disks.
> At first i thought i had a hardware problem since no kernel would
> survive longer than 30 hours. Ofcourse i ran memtest for a couple
> of days. Than i compiled 2.6.12-mm1 and this kernel surviced 18 days 
> without a problem. But of course you now and then want to try 
> bigger&better(tm) kernels ;-)

I've filed a bug at kernel bugzilla, so your report won't be lost.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4982

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P. S.: Andrew Morton already asked for Oops output.

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