From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: long-running perl program that allocates a bunch of memory, forks a fair number of processes, reliably oopses kernel after 18-24 hours. Oops is: Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Oops: 0002 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: nls_iso8859-1 loop nfsd parport_pc lp parport au tofs nfs lockd sunrpc e100 iptable_filter ip_tables e1000 floppy sg sr_mod micro code ide-scsi ide-cd cdrom key Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c012f1d9>] Not tainted Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: EIP is at free_uid [kernel] 0x39 (2.4.22-1.2199. nptlsmp) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: f6992b80 ecx: f6992b8c edx: 00000000 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: esi: f6f6b884 edi: e26d3284 ebp: c6364000 esp: caac7f28 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Process streams2.pl (pid: 19349, stackpage=caac7 000) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Stack: f6992b80 c03758ec 01200011 c0122ca0 f6992 b80 c6364000 e9daf680 c015d1c4 Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: 00000008 ccb45400 c63640d0 fffffff4 01200 011 00000000 bf5460c8 bfecbc0c Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: c012316e 01200011 bfecbb6c caac7fc4 00000 000 00000000 bf5460c8 0000000b Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Call Trace: [<c0122ca0>] copy_process [kernel] 0x680 (0xcaac7f34) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: [<c015d1c4>] do_pipe [kernel] 0x184 (0xcaac7f44) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: [<c012316e>] do_fork [kernel] 0x4e (0xcaac7f68) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: [<c0107bd9>] sys_clone [kernel] 0x49 (0xcaac7fa0 ) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: [<c0109b27>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xcaac7f c0) Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Sep 1 16:20:36 bosphor kernel: Code: 89 50 04 89 02 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 c7 43 0c 00 00 00 00 a1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot into 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl 2. start big perl script (not attached, but i'll try to get a copy if necessary) 3. wait 18-24 hrs. Actual Results: machine oopses Expected Results: machine keeps running normally Additional info:
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