The patch applied was mingos timersync-2.2.10-A2 patch! A test run with Andrea�s patch applied on a 2.2.12 kernel is on the way. I�ll report if any problems are occuring. Both tests are without running xntpd, because my machine crashed twice on Saturday (kernel 2.2.3, no oopses displayed, no xntpd running) and I want to know wheter it is hardware or it is really an smp race in the kernel. Running ksymoops on the previous reported oops-message produces the following output: Using `/usr/src/linux/System.map' to map addresses to symbols. >>EIP: c0123ecb <kmem_cache_free+173/198> Code: c0123ecb <kmem_cache_free+173/198> Code: c0123ecb <kmem_cache_free+173/198> c7 05 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x0 Code: c0123ed0 <kmem_cache_free+178/198> 00 00 00 00 00 Code: c0123edb <kmem_cache_free+183/198> eb 10 jmp c0123ee7 <kmem_cache_free+18f/198> Code: c0123edd <kmem_cache_free+185/198> 90 nop Code: c0123ede <kmem_cache_free+186/198> 56 pushl %esi Code: c0123edf <kmem_cache_free+187/198> 53 pushl %ebx Code: c0123ee0 <kmem_cache_free+188/198> 68 1e 5d 1f c0 pushl $0xc01f5d1e Code: c0123eeb <kmem_cache_free+193/198> Many thanks to mingo and andrea /Herbert - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
