Re: 2.6.5-aa3: kernel BUG at mm/objrmap.c:137!

[Alexander Y. Fomichev]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 13:54, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:57:16PM +0400, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote:
> > G'Day,
> >
> > I've got a bug on 2.6.5-aa3 today
> >
> > System: Dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz, 4G ECC RAM - (production web-server) pretty   
    btw, i was wrong, this box has only 2G ECC RAM not 4. 
> > 	heavy loaded at most time, but i've got it approximately
> > 	at 02:00 (MSD) when no serious load should be.
> > 	System remained accessible all the time but operations
> > 	with proclist from userspace (i.e. ps, w) appears to be locked.
>
> I don't think apache2 uses nonlinear. there was an smp race fix in
> 2.6.5-aa4, so you may want to try again with 2.6.5-aa5 (latest) just in
> case this was mm corruption triggered by the race.
tnx, i'll try it.
btw, system running on 2.6.5-aa3 almost for a month (at 2004/04/18) and
this is first time i catch this, so 2.6.5-aa3 pretty stable for me. (except 
for trouble mentioned by Sergey Kostyliov as "2.6.X kernel memory 
leak?"/"2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems")

> Are you using threading with apache2? Such a race could trigger only
> with threads.

exactly right, apache2 compiled --with-mpm=worker.

-- 
Best regards.
        Alexander Y. Fomichev <gluk@xxxxxxx>
        Public PGP key: http://sysadminday.org.ru/gluk.asc
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