Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11.

Linus Torvalds
2003-12-03T15:59:14Z

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, David [iso-8859-15] Martínez Moreno wrote:
>
> Hello again. I'm testing 2.6.0-test11 in one of my servers. In about a day or
> so under a web/FTP server load, the kernel starts to spit messages:
>
> Dec 2 22:07:25 ulises kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page
> [ ... ]
>
> This machine is Pentium IV with 512 MB of RAM, IDE & SATA disks, RAID 0 over the
> 2 SATA disks, vanilla 2.6.0-test11, Debian testing, apache2 and proftpd.

Interesting. Another RAID 0 problem report..

Is there any way you can test the same setup _without_ using RAID? We seem
to be narrowing down the current 2.6.x problems to RAID usage, but it
would be good to verify that.

Linus