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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Jaco Kroon <jkroon@cs.up.ac.za>
Cc: Fredrik Steen <fredrik@stone.nu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.4: kernel BUG at inode.c:334!
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:51:52 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040330165152.GA5989@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4069898D.90005@cs.up.ac.za>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:51:57PM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:

> So this seems to be a more general problem (My co-worker suspects ext3 - 
> since this bug report started with xfs that might not be the case).  The 
> only pattern we are seeing between all of these is that they serve as 
> nfs servers (but on mine at home it still dies, even when not serving 
> nfs - it still is a nfs client when it dies though), are not the newest 
> and greatest machines and all of them use ext3 as their root file 
> system.  Oh, also, usually shortly after, or during, intensive disk io - 
> which match up with what Mika mentioned.  I've also tried disabling 
> IO-APIC (which we're not even sure is supported, but APIC is), as well 
> as pre-empting.
> 
> We don't suspect nfs on the production machines anymore since we managed 
> to trash the nfs exported dir for about an hour (keeping the server at 
> load average 8.5) which makes use of reiserfs - we might've been lucky 
> though.  In almost all the cases these exports are relatively big 
> though, and I noticed there is a problem there as well (We don't get the 
> magical 1000 number quite yet).
> 
> Is there anything else I should/can take a look at?  Is there any other 
> way in which I can help find the problem?  If I can just get somewhere 
> to start ... (The patch below doesn't apply to 2.6 as far as I can see).
> 
> Apologies for the essay.

Jaco, 

The "kernel BUG at inode.c:340" problem is fixed in 2.4.26-rc1. 
If that was what you were hitting, can you try that on  your servers

About the other crashes, its hard to help without more information. Try attaching
a serial cable to the box for serial console.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-03-30 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-25 17:32 [Bug 2367] New: kernel BUG at inode.c:334! Martin J. Bligh
     [not found] ` <20040326154915.GC3472@logos.cnet>
2004-03-26 15:58   ` Marcelo Tosatti
     [not found]     ` <20040326154000.GA28389@panic.unixguru.info>
2004-03-26 18:39       ` 2.4: " Marcelo Tosatti
2004-03-30 14:51         ` Jaco Kroon
2004-03-30 16:51           ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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