Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)

[Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:54:39 -0300 (BRT)
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> > I can give you this additional info:
> > I tried about everything back to 2.4.21 release, and even this crashes on
> > the box. BUT it is _not_ the only box I can crash 2.4.21. I have another
> > hardware(also SMP) based not on Serverworks but on VIA chipset and with no
> > 64 bit pci and it crashes with 2.4.21 around every 10 - 20 days. It
> > definitely does not with 2.4.19. 
> 
> Do you have any traces of the other box crash? 

Not at hand, but can prepare for the next crash during the weekend.

> > The only requirement for my usual test-box is a working tg3 driver for the
> > GBit ethernet link.
> 
> > Ah yes, and from the long series of tests I can tell that the box won't
> > crash with UP kernel. I can re-check that with rc1 if this is useful.
> 
> Okey. Thats useful information. How hard would it be for you to try ext3 
> as the filesystem (as Andrew suggested) ? 

Well, if that provides further info I will do. I will try to achieve over the
weekend, I need some spare volumes for conversion (by copy) :-)

Regards,
Stephan