On 03/09/12 15:57, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:30 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> PS: I just noticed that severity is set to "normal". Sorry >> to say, but I disagree on the severity in this case. If our >> production environment dies after 200 days uptime, then this >> is fatal. > > Why do you say '200 days uptime'? >
The division by zero came up on several servers in my environment
after more than 200 days uptime each. I have never seen this bug
pop up immediately. Looking at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16991
it seems that an uptime of several months before being hit by the
problem is not unusual.
(Novell had a 200 days uptime problem with their 2.6.32 kernel, too,
even though I am not sure that this is the same problem:
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7009834&sliceId=1
)
Anyway, does the uptime matter? A crashing server in a production
environment is a severe problem, regardless how long the machine
was up before.
>> Would you mind to adjust the severity of this bug report?
>
> We have what is supposed to be a workaround. Does it not work? Have
> you seen any warnings?
>
In which Debian kernel can I find the workaround?
Regards
Harri
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