RE: 2.2.1-ac5 oops with many fd

Jeffrey Jones (jeffreyj@ami.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:32:10 -0500


> This system is a Dell 4 way Xeon-1Mb, 2Gb RAM, AMI Megaraid 428 (with
> 16Mb and battery), version 0.93 driver, version 1.47 BIOS, 6 physical
> disks arranged as 3 virtual disks, AIC7xxx for tape and CD, (2) Intel
> eepro 100baseT.
>
> One of the advantages of SMP is that you get an oops much faster :-).
>
> The system experience less then 10 seconds of heavy load before hitting
> this. Probably over 5000 fds were in use. There were no other messages
> before the oops. It went down too fast to write anything to syslog.
>
> -Dan
>
> The EIP is in build_sglist in the megaraid driver.
>
I just came accross this same oops today, and I looked into it and found the
pointer
which is being corrupted, it appears to be a bug in the newest version of
the driver. I will
probably have a fix within a few days. Thanks for the info.

Jeff L Jones <jeffreyj@ami.com>
RAID SW Dev., American Megatrends Inc.

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