From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: Across a variety of server hardware (IBM eServer 330, Dell PE1750, Dell PE2650, Dell PE2550, AMD64 dual opteron system) I've been seeing a large number of kernel Oopses over the past several weeks. The systems will keep running at first, but usually end up locking up once Oopsing has started. Looking over my logs, I have 134 logged oopses since Feb 28th spread over 28 different systems. Of those 134, 49 appear to be initiating with kswapd; the others are reported from somewhat random other processes (often multithreaded java-based applications) after a kswapd oops has occurred on the running kernel. I've read through the current list of 'kernel oops' bugs (I really have) and haven't found anything substantially similar, but I've missed dups before, and I apologize if that's the case. If nothing else, I have a large quantity of data available on these oopses. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.9_FC2smp kernel-2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp 2.6.10-1.770_FC2smp How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run memory intensive, multithreaded applications 2. Wait 3. Actual Results: Kernel Oopses and eventual hang. Expected Results: User app can crash if neccessary, but the kernel should go on. Additional info: I'll attach one set of representative log messages, plus a combined syslog listing grepped for 'Process: ' in case someone would like to request others.
*** Bug 151211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 112040 [details] Combined syslog grepped for oopsing process
Created attachment 112041 [details] Oops syslog details for one system "vanadium"
Created attachment 112042 [details] Combined syslog grepped for kernel versions
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.
Congratulations Kernel! It turns out that, in a roundabout way, there was a hardware problem effecting my entire machine room. It seems our power out here is not very good and that, combined with a few too many servers on the same circut, caused hardware flutter and kernel Oopsing under load. The multi-threaded corrolation came in because those apps were more likely to generate near maximum CPU utilization. Not the easiest problem to diagnose... I recently got in a huge shipment of UPSs, moved all the servers to them, and we've been crash free for a week now. (*knocks on wood*) Closing the bug with appropriate commentary.