Joshua Penix wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007, at 4:42 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> I forget now, are we running a 32bit kernel? If so, a side question >> might be: was that an expediency choice? is a 64bit upgrade in the >> winds, whenever the issue goes away -- perhaps hw-compatiblity or? > > We're running 64-bit on the main box. The fully virtualized guest that > I created to hold the original Sparky's image is only 32 bit, because > the original Sparky was only 32 bit. And the kernel is the very same > one from the original Sparky, which probably explains why it has no > HIMEM support (2.4.27 from Debian 3.1). I can't believe that didn't > occur to me, thanks Gus. > > Once Plone and the lists are moved to new virtual machines we'll have > all the memory we want. >
Ahhh, makes sense. I looked around at the "BUG softlockup" messages, and it let to a LKML thread that pretty specifically nailed the cause and a definite fix, at about the 2.6.23 kernel, so it seems that everything is explained. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/17/127 Presumeably CentOS applied the patch to 2.6.23, I suppose (since .24 is not yet available). Have a pleasant time in Wyoming, Josh. ..Wyoming? brrr, Now I won't feel so cold going to Prescott, AZ. Happy days to all! :-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
