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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc3 does not like diablo news reader daemon
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Marian Eichholz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the kernel 2.6.9-rc3 tends to crash when executing our NNTP
> reader daemon (dreaderd from diablo).
> 
> 2.6.3-rc1 runs on the sibling machine like a charm.

> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: EIP is at generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x1d1/0x500
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: eax: 00014c38   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: esi: de8fe000   edi: 00014c38   ebp: 00000000   esp: de8ffe38
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: Process dreaderd (pid: 166, threadinfo=de8fe000 task=de86d000)
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: Stack: 00014c38 00000040 00000000 de8ffe48 00000000 ca258200 de8ffee0 c02a8f05 
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel:        de8ffee0 00000001 de8ffe8c ffffffff df37f3ec 00000000 00000000 df37f3ec 
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel:        00000048 df37f490 de961560 00000048 00014c38 00000000 de8ffeb4 de961560 
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel: Call Trace:
> Oct  6 22:48:39 newsread5 kernel:  [<c02a8f05>] sock_aio_read+0xf5/0x110


hmmmm, interesting.  Looks like AIO is ailing.

As an ex-Usenet news admin, I really like DIABLO... maybe I'll pull the 
latest copy and try to debug this.

	Jeff