From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265553AbUABS3Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:29:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265554AbUABS3Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:29:24 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:62735 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265553AbUABS3X (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:29:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:29:21 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Claas Langbehn Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS forced shutdown with kernel 2.6.0 Message-ID: <20040102182921.A27237@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Claas Langbehn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20040102095051.GA19872@rootdir.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040102095051.GA19872@rootdir.de>; from claas@rootdir.de on Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:50:51AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:50:51AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hello! > > > Last night one of my machines running xfs shut down my /homes partition. > > That machine was running Azureus (a bittorrent client) with probably > high memory usage. > > But even if the memory usage of one program is going near to 100% it > should not force the filesystem to shutdown. Instead it should crash > the application. > > I could also think of bad memory, but we did test the SDRAM modules > only a week ago, and they passed memtest86. > > After rebooting everything was working fine, again. > > So, is this a bug of xfs? I've seen the same bug a few times lately, but only if I had previous memory corruption due to code I was hacking on. Can you reproduce it without the nvidia module loaded as that is likely source of such corruption?