Thanks for the link to the patch. I'll try it if I can find the time. Martin Pool writes: > On 10 Aug 2004, Mikko Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I tried distcc 2.17 with the environment variables DISTCC_MMAP=0 > > DISTCC_SENDFILE=0 DISTCC_TCP_CORK=0 set. I still kernel panics on the > > latest Fedora Core 1 kernel. This time the ethernet driver int the > > panicked system was 3c59x. > > That's no good; that means it's probably not the same bug as before. > Do you get an oops or some other backtrace from the kerne? You should > probably report it to the kernel list. >
I'm no kernel programmer, but as far as I can see the problem (and the patch) is in page allocation during zero-copy operations, so the bug could affect any driver that does zero-copy, right? Certainly I see exactly the same behaviour with both e1000 and 3c59x. The bug was already reported in the RedHat bugzilla and their kernel developers had been cc:d. I guess I should try the latest 2.4 kernel before sending a message to the kernel mailing list. Mikko __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc
