Re: Segfaults in mkdir under high load. Software or hardware?

[Maurice Volaski]

At 6:00 AM -0500 9/18/05, 
linux-kernel-daily-digest-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  >
> >  I have been seeing a similar thing:
> >
> >  ./current:Sep 17 18:00:01 [kernel] mkdir[7696]: segfault at
> >  0000000000000000 rip 000000000040184d rsp 00007fffff826350 error 4
> >
> >  I'm using the plain 2.6.13 (from gentoo vanilla sources), though it
> >  was compiled with
> >  gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
>
> x86_64 ? If so see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851

Dual Opteron, and this looks like my issue. It recommends echo 0 > 
/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space but that has not stopped it from 
happening, so I'll probably wait for the patch to get merged.
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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