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Haar János wrote:

> OK, it is enough, to switch to 64bit, thanks!
> 
> But i have a little problem.
> My node #3 reboots again.
> 
> At this point i have run out of ideas. :-(
> 
> This is checked already:
> 
> - the complete hardware, except the 12 hdd. (smart reports, no errors at
> all, 4x ide + 8xSATA all 300GB.)
> - the SMP race. (checked with non-smp kernel)
> - APIC/ACPI (tested with non...  kernel)
> - the e1000 driver (tested with realtek gige adapter)
> - the complete filesystem, OS (NFS-ROOT, and copy between nodes.)
> - the memory allocation proble, (checked with debug-kernel, and rised
> min_free_kbytes)
> 
> The systems only service is nbd. (nbd-server serving md0, raid4 array)
> 
> Anybody have an idea?

Bad hardware. Run memtest overnight. Can your power supply deal with
that many drives? etc.

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