From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Under heavy load the kernel driver for qlogic's qla 2100 spits out many messages which makes me VERY uneasy. Under 2.2.19-6.2.1 it haven't crashed yet, under 2.2.17-14 it even rebooted server with data corruption (it happend during night backup, without further messages/dumps, sorry). Hardware is Dell PowerEdge 8450, 4 Xeons, 4G RAM, PowerVault 650F. I'm attaching part of /var/log/messages to this report. How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: In our case, it happens while backing up Interbase's database with gbak, 2- 3 files, 2 GB each. Additional info:
Created attachment 17886 [details] /var/log/messages fragment
Does it help if you boot with the "noapic" option at the lilo prompt ?
Seems like it helped. We'll try some stress-testing and then probably close this report. Thanks for the tip!