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[LDM #JXU-340495]: kernel panic... have you seen this before?

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  • Subject: [LDM #JXU-340495]: kernel panic... have you seen this before?
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:37:01 -0600
Gerry,

What kernel/OS are you running?  We've observed this a number of times 
in FC 3/4, mostly with 2.6.12 and thereabouts.  Some machines would die
weekly and others every six weeks or so.  Like you said, we found this
to be intermittent as well...

mike

> dc-ldm1 is dying periodically.  We've a 1G queue and 2G physical memory.
> We're seeing a kernel panic w/ possible deadlock in kmem_alloc.  We've
> transiently seen this on sasquatch but didn't do anything to correct it;
> it went away (I really don't like intermittent failures).
> 
> We're about to transition operations from dc-ldm1 to dc-ldm2, a Sun
> v4200 w/ 8 GB RAM, and we'll up the queue to 2GB then.  I'd prefer to
> not do that switch for a few more days, but this may drive my hand.
> 
> Y'all got any thoughts or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks, Gerry
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JXU-340495
Department: Support LDM
Priority: High
Status: Closed