Yeap, chestia asta chiar se intampla, eu am patit-o pe mai multe servere..
Mircea "care kernel o fi mai stabil pana la urma?" S. > Uite unu' care vede probleme pe 2.4.9 fara XFS: > > We've been seeing some corruption with 2.4.9 without XFS. > > The last one I looked closely at we have a thread that has just > allocated an inode, alloc_inode, which gets it from the inode_cachep > kmem_cache_t. The inode is within a certain page that is full of > characters that were written by syslog to /var/log/messages. > > I chased the inode_cachep slab_t structures and there is one next > pointer that points to the start of a page (the next page after the one > the inode is in). This is wrong as these pointers are offset from the > start of a page. I followed all the prev pointers and all the slab_t's > are correct and I can see where the bad next pointer is. For this > problem, many fields in the inode are OK but the dentry list is bad. > Oopsed in d_instantiate. > > We have had a few scatterred oopses for a few releases (2.4.7, 2.4.8, > and now 2.4.9). This is the first one I really chased down in detail to > see that it looked like something went wrong in the inode_cachep. I'm > wondering if there isn't a bug somewhere in the way the slabs are freed > (if all elements are no longer available) racing with a corresnding > allocate. Or, maybe someone freed an inode twice or ... > > Anyway, just chimming in that we are seeing memory corruption on 2.4.9, > too. > > -- > Florin Andrei > > "In theory, under the new computer security law, anyone whose computer > was infected by Nimda/CodeRed could be imprisoned for life -- the new > law says nothing about intent. So, basically we would have a few million > Microsoft Windows users serving life sentences..." - Dan Hollis > > --- > Send e-mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe rlug' to > unsubscribe from this list. > > --- Send e-mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe rlug' to unsubscribe from this list.
