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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Oops when running snapshots
Date: Thu Jul 10 04:34:01 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030710113223.D23240@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057789596.1368.28.camel@lvadplx>; from andrew@fc.hp.com on Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:26:36PM -0600

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:26:36PM -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote:
> Ran a load test last night where we created snapshots two snapshots
> every 2 hours under heavy file system load.  We got the following oops:
> 
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000000
> 802895f5
<SNIP>
>   11:   89 48 04                  mov    %ecx,0x4(%eax)
> 
> 
> 10 warnings issued.  Results may not be reliable.
> 
> This was run on a 2.4.21 system using LVM 1.0.7.  The system has 2GB of
> memory and is configured with HIGHME64G.  We are running the latest
> 2.4.21 XFS and are using xfs_freeze to quiesce the file system.  We are
> not using the VFS_LOCK patch.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what may be causing this?

VM problems ? (we had some reports ITR)
Do you have a chance to retest without HIGHMEM to see if it still fails ?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-10  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-09 17:27 [linux-lvm] Oops when running snapshots Andrew Patterson
2003-07-10  4:34 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2003-07-10 12:28   ` Andrew Patterson
2003-08-15 17:16   ` Andrew Patterson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-05  4:36 Steve McIntyre
2004-01-12  9:36 ` Steve McIntyre
2004-01-14  8:37   ` Andrew Patterson
2004-01-21  5:35     ` Steve McIntyre
2004-01-12 10:27 Little, Chris

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