From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; H010818) Description of problem: heavy network traffic will crash kernel every time. I updated kernel using up2date from version 2.4.18-10smp to 2.4.18-18.7xsmp. Pervious kernel did not crash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Running a crawler I can index over 1.5 million URLs a day using old kernel. No problems at all. Actual Results: Running the crawler with the new kernel will crash the entire system every time. Only way to recover is power off. Tried several attempts with new kernel and can always crash it this way. Expected Results: Should not crash of course. Additional info: Using Dell PowerEdge 2650 4GB RAM, 2 Xeon 1.8, Raid 5, 3 Broadcom 10/100/1000. What I think the problem is is the tg3 driver. That's the driver used for the broadcom ethernet cards and one of the things this new kernel changed. After the upgrade the system works fine under normal minimal system and network load. I ran the basic server for two days without any problems with the new kernel installed. Crashing the server is easy every time simply by choosing 2.4.18-18.7xsmp kernel from Grub at startup and run my indexer. Obviously most people will not have this problem because they don't normally fetch 1.5+ million URLs a day like we do. If I start the server using the 2.4.18-10smp kernel I do not have this problem and am able to index the 1.5+ million URLs as expected. So I have to believe there is a problem with the 2.4.18-18.7xsmp kernel as this is the ONLY kernel that causes this problem. All previous kernels used prior to this have not had a problem. According to the errata these were the changes made for this kernel: 77834 - Working Dos from bugtraq mailing list 69920 - Kernel Crashes in TG3 Driver 76171 - kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x update caused maestro3 to stop working 77138 - Sound Modules Fail for Enigma kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x on Dell Latitude J750 76555 - problems with kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 on Dell Latitude CPx 77565 - [gdth] NULL pointer dereference in scsi.c (scsi_release_commandblocks) 76233 - new kernel up2date hangs laptop at shutdown 77241 - esd peaks CPU w/ kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8100 77258 - Ethernet interface not working on SiS 963 south bridge (SiS 648 chipset) 77134 - Sound Modules fail for Enigma kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x 76385 - 2.4.18-17.7.x update breaks Wacom tablet support 75359 - kernel source does not compile due to missing include files 76624 - Segmentation Fault using GDTH on RH72 kernel-smp-2.4.18-17.7.x 76206 - xirc2ps_cs hangs apmd after upgrading to 2.4.18-17 So I have to assume the problem is with the "TG3 Driver" as this seems to be the main "network" updates that were performed. Before deciding to post this bug I ran several tests with both kernels and like I said, I can crash the 2.4.18-18.7xsmp kernel every time, but with two other kernels available to me via Grub I can not crash the system. Thanks, Tony
Created attachment 87264 [details] dump of running tasks/memory when this freezes
I'm seeing this as well (see attached kernel dump) FWIW -- this was NOT happening on the -17.7.x version, only the -18 one
Same here. Attaching kernel backtrace I found.
Created attachment 87964 [details] kernel backtrace
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69920 ***