Re: downgrading woody kernel 2.4 - 2.2

2002-02-21 Thread David Biro (DaV3|D3)

 Hi!

  experiencing several crashes. I think it's because the 2.4 kernel (but
  if not, just tell me please ;), so I decided to downgrade the kernel to
  2.2 (whis is available in woody).
 It's not possible for us to even comment on the likely cause of your problems.
Ok, to be more specific. The customer ran a script nightly from
cron, and the script is very resource intensive. 
  (commandline PHP script, with high Postgres usage).

After the script started, various problems happened, often the whole
sytem died. 

I found entries like this in the logfiles:
: Code: ff 0b 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 88 00 00 00 8b 43 0c 50 e8 40 66
:  1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c080
:  printing eip:
: c011b676
: *pde = 
: Oops: 0002
: CPU:0
: EIP:0010:[exit_sighand+26/80]Not tainted
: EFLAGS: 00010002
: eax:    ebx: c932c000   ecx: c932c264   edx: c080
: esi: c932c000   edi: 000b   ebp: 7960   esp: c932dc78
: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
: Process postmaster (pid: 13023, stackpage=c932d000)
: Stack:  c0116ef5 c932c000 0002 0002 c01113c8 c010704b
000b
: c0111717 c020bd1e c932dd54 0002 c932c000 0002
c01113c8
:8080  c016c6ce c932c000 c00bbac0 0001 00030001
c02a3f14
: Call Trace: [do_exit+349/460] [do_page_fault+0/1176] [die+79/80]
[do_page_faul
:[set_cursor+110/128] [vt_console_print+718/736]
[__call_console_drivers+58/
:[do_exit+194/460] [do_page_fault+0/1176] [die+79/80]
[do_page_fault+847/117
:[page_cache_release+44/48] [free_page_and_swap_cache+49/52]
[__free_pte+58/
:[die+79/80] [do_page_fault+847/1176] [do_page_fault+0/1176]
[file_read_acto
:[generic_file_read+129/308] [error_code+52/60] [fget+17/40]
[sys_read+22/20

  But the same happened with the other daemons too...

  The system is a PIII@833 with 256Mb of ECC SDRAM. 
  I was using a self compiled 2.4.17, but the same happened with 2.4.9.

  Well, I compiled a 2.2.20 kernel, and installed it with no problems.
It seems to be stable now, but it needs some more testing. (I started
the script, runs smoothly). 

  I don't know if you get something usable from the above log, if not,
please tell me what should I send.

  Best Regards,
David Biro
  

 
 To be able to make any guess at the cause of your problems we need to know
 the exact kernel version, the details of your hardware, and some information
 on what your server does would be handy (but is not as important).  Without
 such information it's not even worth guessing.
 
 FWIW All my most important machines run 2.4.x machines and are quite
 reliable.  Currently the only reliability issue I have in any of my machines
 is directly related to a binary-only kernel module.  Apart from that all my
 machines are capable of running for months at a time (apart from power
 failures, kernel upgrades, hardware changes, etc).
 
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downgrading woody kernel 2.4 - 2.2

2002-02-21 Thread David Biro \(DaV3|D3\)
Hi!

  We're using Debian Woody (testing) on one of our servers, a we're
experiencing several crashes. I think it's because the 2.4 kernel (but
if not, just tell me please ;), so I decided to downgrade the kernel to
2.2 (whis is available in woody). 

  I'd ask if there will be any problems after downgrading?
 Or i have to download 2.2 source (apt-get install ...), compile, and
that's it? 

  Anyyway, any suggestion about stabilizing woody would be welcome,
because I really hate to reset the server every day.

  (Well, maybe it's a hw problem, but who knows?)

Thanks in advance,
 .DaVe

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Re: downgrading woody kernel 2.4 - 2.2

2002-02-21 Thread David Biro \(DaV3|D3\)
 Hi!

  experiencing several crashes. I think it's because the 2.4 kernel (but
  if not, just tell me please ;), so I decided to downgrade the kernel to
  2.2 (whis is available in woody).
 It's not possible for us to even comment on the likely cause of your problems.
Ok, to be more specific. The customer ran a script nightly from
cron, and the script is very resource intensive. 
  (commandline PHP script, with high Postgres usage).

After the script started, various problems happened, often the whole
sytem died. 

I found entries like this in the logfiles:
: Code: ff 0b 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 88 00 00 00 8b 43 0c 50 e8 40 66
:  1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c080
:  printing eip:
: c011b676
: *pde = 
: Oops: 0002
: CPU:0
: EIP:0010:[exit_sighand+26/80]Not tainted
: EFLAGS: 00010002
: eax:    ebx: c932c000   ecx: c932c264   edx: c080
: esi: c932c000   edi: 000b   ebp: 7960   esp: c932dc78
: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
: Process postmaster (pid: 13023, stackpage=c932d000)
: Stack:  c0116ef5 c932c000 0002 0002 c01113c8 c010704b
000b
: c0111717 c020bd1e c932dd54 0002 c932c000 0002
c01113c8
:8080  c016c6ce c932c000 c00bbac0 0001 00030001
c02a3f14
: Call Trace: [do_exit+349/460] [do_page_fault+0/1176] [die+79/80]
[do_page_faul
:[set_cursor+110/128] [vt_console_print+718/736]
[__call_console_drivers+58/
:[do_exit+194/460] [do_page_fault+0/1176] [die+79/80]
[do_page_fault+847/117
:[page_cache_release+44/48] [free_page_and_swap_cache+49/52]
[__free_pte+58/
:[die+79/80] [do_page_fault+847/1176] [do_page_fault+0/1176]
[file_read_acto
:[generic_file_read+129/308] [error_code+52/60] [fget+17/40]
[sys_read+22/20

  But the same happened with the other daemons too...

  The system is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 256Mb of ECC SDRAM. 
  I was using a self compiled 2.4.17, but the same happened with 2.4.9.

  Well, I compiled a 2.2.20 kernel, and installed it with no problems.
It seems to be stable now, but it needs some more testing. (I started
the script, runs smoothly). 

  I don't know if you get something usable from the above log, if not,
please tell me what should I send.

  Best Regards,
David Biro
  

 
 To be able to make any guess at the cause of your problems we need to know
 the exact kernel version, the details of your hardware, and some information
 on what your server does would be handy (but is not as important).  Without
 such information it's not even worth guessing.
 
 FWIW All my most important machines run 2.4.x machines and are quite
 reliable.  Currently the only reliability issue I have in any of my machines
 is directly related to a binary-only kernel module.  Apart from that all my
 machines are capable of running for months at a time (apart from power
 failures, kernel upgrades, hardware changes, etc).
 
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 Signatures 4 lines are rude.  If you send email to me or to a mailing list
 that I am subscribed to which has 4 lines of legalistic junk at the end
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downgrading woody kernel 2.4 - 2.2

2002-02-20 Thread David Biro (DaV3|D3)

Hi!

  We're using Debian Woody (testing) on one of our servers, a we're
experiencing several crashes. I think it's because the 2.4 kernel (but
if not, just tell me please ;), so I decided to downgrade the kernel to
2.2 (whis is available in woody). 

  I'd ask if there will be any problems after downgrading?
 Or i have to download 2.2 source (apt-get install ...), compile, and
that's it? 

  Anyyway, any suggestion about stabilizing woody would be welcome,
because I really hate to reset the server every day.

  (Well, maybe it's a hw problem, but who knows?)

Thanks in advance,
 .DaVe

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