2.2.14 hangs on Dell PowerEdge 6300

2.2.14 hangs on Dell PowerEdge 6300

[Nagy Tibor]

I am sorry, this the same message as yesterday, but I misstyped the
version. It is about 2.4..., of cource.

Hi,

we were satisfied with linux kernel version 2.4.9. Our linux server is
unusable with kernel version 2.4.10 and higher, also with 2.4.14
declared to be stable.

We are working on Dell PowerEdge 6300 (4 Pentium Xeon/550Mhz, 4GB RAM).
Any kernel from 2.4.10 to 2.4.14 brings our machine to a hanging state.
Nothing can be determined, I guess, something is wrong with memory
management. Unfortunately there is no more information about the
problem.

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Tibor Nagy
National Savings and Commercial Bank Ltd (OTP Bank)
H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 16.
Tel: 00 36 1 374 6990	Fax: 00 36 1 374 6981	E-mail: nagyt@otpbank.hu
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Re: 2.2.14 hangs on Dell PowerEdge 6300

[James Bourne]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nagy Tibor wrote:

> I am sorry, this the same message as yesterday, but I misstyped the
> version. It is about 2.4..., of cource.
>
> Hi,
>
> we were satisfied with linux kernel version 2.4.9. Our linux server is
> unusable with kernel version 2.4.10 and higher, also with 2.4.14
> declared to be stable.
>
> We are working on Dell PowerEdge 6300 (4 Pentium Xeon/550Mhz, 4GB RAM).
> Any kernel from 2.4.10 to 2.4.14 brings our machine to a hanging state.
> Nothing can be determined, I guess, something is wrong with memory
> management. Unfortunately there is no more information about the
> problem.

I think you will need more information to get any type of sane reply.

We are running 2.4.14 on a PE6400, quad 700/4G in a production environment.
It has been stable, VM works well, using ext2 due to problems with the ext3
patch for that particular version of kernel.

eepro100 NICs, MegaRAID driver running raid1 and raid5, aic7xxx...

If you want to contact me off line, we can compare kernel configs etc.

Regards
James Bourne

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Kmsgdump/...

[Ian Stirling]

I've been looking for kmsgdump, or similar for 2.4.xx, but am not 
finding anything that will patch.
Can anyone give me some URLs?

Re: Kmsgdump/...

[Martin Josefsson]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Ian Stirling wrote:

> I've been looking for kmsgdump, or similar for 2.4.xx, but am not 
> finding anything that will patch.
> Can anyone give me some URLs?

I have a version for 2.4.2-ac16 here (the sysrq stuff need porting but
it's easy, I've done it but forgot to diff :(

http://bifrost.hjorten.nu/patch-2.4.2ac16-kmsgdump

/Martin

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

Re: 2.2.14 hangs on Dell PowerEdge 6300

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:25:44AM -0700, James Bourne wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nagy Tibor wrote:
> 
> > I am sorry, this the same message as yesterday, but I misstyped the
> > version. It is about 2.4..., of cource.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we were satisfied with linux kernel version 2.4.9. Our linux server is
> > unusable with kernel version 2.4.10 and higher, also with 2.4.14
> > declared to be stable.
> >
> > We are working on Dell PowerEdge 6300 (4 Pentium Xeon/550Mhz, 4GB RAM).
> > Any kernel from 2.4.10 to 2.4.14 brings our machine to a hanging state.
> > Nothing can be determined, I guess, something is wrong with memory
> > management. Unfortunately there is no more information about the
> > problem.
> 
> I think you will need more information to get any type of sane reply.
> 
> We are running 2.4.14 on a PE6400, quad 700/4G in a production environment.
> It has been stable, VM works well, using ext2 due to problems with the ext3
> patch for that particular version of kernel.
> 

Do you mean the "cached" overflow (undeflow?) with ext3 applied?  If so,
this patch will fix it.

--- 2.4.14-ext3_0.9.15-2414/fs/jbd/transaction.c~	Wed Nov  7 22:41:13 2001
+++ 2.4.14-ext3_0.9.15-2414/fs/jbd/transaction.c	Wed Nov  7 22:43:14 2001
@@ -1930,7 +1930,6 @@
 
 	if (!offset) {
 		if (!may_free || !try_to_free_buffers(page, 0)) {
-			atomic_inc(&buffermem_pages);
 			return 0;
 		}
 		J_ASSERT(page->buffers == NULL);

Mike

2.2.14 hangs on Dell PowerEdge 6300

[Nagy Tibor]

Hi,

we were satisfied with linux kernel version 2.2.9. Our linux server is
unusable with kernel version 2.2.10 and higher, also with 2.2.14
declared to be stable.

We are working on Dell PowerEdge 6300 (4 Pentium Xeon/550Mhz, 4GB RAM).
Any kernel from 2.2.10 to 2.2.14 brings our machine to a hanging state.
Nothing can be determined, I guess, something is wrong with memory
management. Unfortunately there is no more information about the
problem.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tibor Nagy
National Savings and Commercial Bank Ltd (OTP Bank)
H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 16.
Tel: 00 36 1 374 6990	Fax: 00 36 1 374 6981	E-mail: nagyt@otpbank.hu
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