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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 3.9.0: general protection fault
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 11:12:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130507011254.GP19978@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5187A663.707@itwm.fraunhofer.de>

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:47:31PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On 05/06/2013 02:28 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:14:22AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> >>And anpther protection fault, this time with 3.9.0. Always happens
> >>on one of the servers. Its ECC memory, so I don't suspect a faulty
> >>memory bank. Going to fsck now-
> >
> >http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_information_should_I_include_when_reporting_a_problem.3F
> 
> Isn't that a bit overhead? And I can't provide /proc/meminfo and
> others, as this issue causes a kernel panic a few traces later.

Provide what information you can.  Without knowing a single thing
about your hardware, storage config and workload, I can't help you
at all. You're asking me to find a needle in a haystack blindfolded
and with both hands tied behind my back....

Stuff like /proc/meminfo doesn't have to be provided from exactly
the time of the crash - it's just the simplest way to find out how
much RAM you have in the machine, so a dump from whenever the
machine is up and running the workload is fine. Other information we
ask for (e.g. capturing the output of `vmstat 5` as suggested in the
FAQ) gives us the runtime variation of memory usage and easy to
capture right up to the failure point....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02 14:45 3.8.7: general protection fault Bernd Schubert
2013-05-06  8:14 ` 3.9.0: " Bernd Schubert
2013-05-06  9:40   ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-06 12:28   ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-06 12:47     ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-07  1:12       ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-05-07 11:18         ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-07 22:07           ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-08 17:48             ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-09  0:41               ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-10 10:19                 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-10 13:33                   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-11  0:12                   ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-03 16:39                     ` Bernd Schubert
2013-05-09  7:16             ` Stan Hoeppner

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