Bug 109006 – Latest RH 2.4.20 kernels crash on my Dell PE2650 under havy disk io

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Bug 109006 - Latest RH 2.4.20 kernels crash on my Dell PE2650 under havy disk io

Summary:	Latest RH 2.4.20 kernels crash on my Dell PE2650 under havy disk io

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-11-04 03:14 EST by Rene Kapeller
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:41:41 EDT
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Description Rene Kapeller 2003-11-04 03:14:16 EST

Description of problem:
RH kernels 2.4.20-20.9smp and 2.4.20-19.9smp crash (kernel trace) on
my Dell PE2650 after 1-3 hours while doing havy disk io.
RH kernel 2.4.20-8smp and 2.4.20-18.9smp do not have this problem! 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Redhat-9.0 + glibc-2.3.2-27.9


How reproducible:
After testing for more than 10 days, I confirm 100% reproducibility.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. while 1; do dd if=/dev/zero of=big10 bs=1M count=10; done
2. wait ~1-3 hours
3.
  
Actual results:
kernel trace on console, but no log file entry!


Expected results:


Additional info:
- The PE2650 has 2 x 2.4 GHz Xeon 
- Hyperthreading on/off does not influence the mentioned effect.
- Booting with 'noapic' still crashes system
- Using latest bcm5700 instead of tg3 makes not difference
- Doing disk io on local disk (PERC) or external FC disk makes no
difference.

Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:41:41 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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