From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:27:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:27:06 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net ([24.153.64.115]:41685 "EHLO smtp.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:27:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 16:25:40 -0500 From: John M Flinchbaugh Subject: Re: ptrace patch fails stress testing In-reply-to: <20030401122256.A34952@forte.austin.ibm.com> To: linas@austin.ibm.com Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linas@linas.org, ppc@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <20030401212540.GB7837@butterfly.hjsoft.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=DocE+STaALJfprDB; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i References: <20030401122256.A34952@forte.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:22:56PM -0600, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote: > I've got a number of machines here that crash after installing > the recent ptrace fix. The crash only occurrs when machines=20 > are highly stressed. i've seen suspicious behaviour since installing the ptrace patch as well, but i couldn't really narrow it down to anything, as i have absolutely nothing of interest in logs. i just login during the day and notice that it had rebooted itself (uncleanly) over night at around 3-5am. this is when the disk-intensive nightly stuff happens, like some backups, updatedb, etc. i was starting to suspect power issues, since i never see oopses in logs. this is a dual athlon box. --=20 ____________________}John Flinchbaugh{______________________ | glynis@hjsoft.com http://www.hjsoft.com/~glynis/ | ~~Powered by Linux: Reboots are for hardware upgrades only~~ --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+igPUCGPRljI8080RAtMqAJ9wM6j0c9o6Py/SQknjJePMNSr+XgCfaDWD xbyZ/IK5Ln1bqXWC+TXqppI= =yINi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--