Description of problem: On a newly installed system with a dual core Athlon 64 and 4 GB of memory, the system runs fine as long as I constrain it to 3 GB (mem=3G on boot line). When I remove the restriction, it first starts up fine, but crash shortly. Typically when it starts to get a little bit loaded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1454_FC4 How reproducible: It doesn't happen on any particular command. But it does not ever take too long before it happens. Additional info: This is the same system for which I reported problems in the SCSI driver in bug 167049. I first believed the unstableness to be some side-effect of the other bug. But with the 2.6.12-1.1454_FC4 kernel the SCSI driver acts correctly, but the system is still unstable with 4 GB. So I assume there are two different bugs here. I've now set up netdump to get a chance to know what is going on. At first it didn't produce anything at all. On the console it said something about netdump being entered recursively. Now I've been able to at least catch a little log, which I enclose. It is very short and I don't really expect it to say anything to anybody, but just in case I submit it anyway. I'll continue to try to get more information to attach. Since we can't wait to get the machine in production any longer, it might take some time before I can continue expermentation.
Created attachment 118952 [details] Crash log
can you try the 2.6.13-1.1524_FC4 kernel in updates-testing ?
actually, scrap that. it's missing the previous AIC fix I had you test. I'll rebuild another test kernel soon.
ok, 1525 will appear at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4/ in a little while. Please let me know how that works out.
2.6.13 :-) I've downloaded it, and will find an opportunity to test it out during the coming week.
It is looking good. The machine has been running for more than 13 hours now with 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4smp. It never took that long to crash it before. I believe it works now.
thanks for testing. I'll put this in modified state until that update gets pushed live, which will hopefully happen quite soon.
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
As I said in comment 6 my problems were fixed already in 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4. But I can confirm that 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 runs fine too.