On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:53, Kevin Easton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 17:55:31 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > Did you try the patch below? What happened, if anything?
>
> [snip kswapd oops & patch]
>
> Yes.. unfortunately, since I posted the original patch, I've seen multiple
> oopsen in several different places. I should probably mention here that I'm
> running the pdc202xx.c driver as a plain IDE controller, with linux software
> RAID-1 and ext3 on that. The instability seems to trigger after copying
> a large amount of data to the partitions on that RAID array (several hundred
> MB usually). When I copy data to a drive that's on the other (plain VIA)
> motherboard IDE controller, it doesn't trigger a crash.
Probably not the VM then. How about reformatting the raid volume with another
filesystem such as ReiserFS or JFS, with a view to eliminating the possibility
that Ext3/jbd is the cause.
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