From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rick Warner <rick@microway.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very strange issue with sata,<4G Ram, and ext3
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:48:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114728503.24687.248.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504281216.08026.rick@microway.com>
On Iau, 2005-04-28 at 17:16, Rick Warner wrote:
> On these systems, we are getting ext2 errors from the initrd during the
> untarring. Soon after, we start getting seg faults on random things (looks
> like stuff caused by the still running dhcp client), and then a continuous
> stream of segfaults on the restore script itself (restore[1]).
This sounds almost like the pxe/boot code is still using ram that the
kernel has now used (eg the PXE layer or pxe booter forgot to close the
client and
its still DMAing happily into the kernel)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-28 16:16 very strange issue with sata,<4G Ram, and ext3 Rick Warner
2005-04-28 17:32 ` Rick Warner
2005-04-28 22:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-04-29 14:45 ` Rick Warner
2005-05-04 19:29 ` Rick Warner
2005-05-05 15:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 21:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-06 13:39 ` Rick Warner
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