Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-30 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! Any News? Stefan Stefan Priebe - FH schrieb: Hi! OK - i rechecked everything. We've 22 Servers with the DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA Chipset. But only the 5 oldest of them (before 2004 / 01 / 20) (we've buyed all in a range of 10 month) have this problem. So i think it is a mixture

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-25 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! OK - i rechecked everything. We've 22 Servers with the DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA Chipset. But only the 5 oldest of them (before 2004 / 01 / 20) (we've buyed all in a range of 10 month) have this problem. So i think it is a mixture of software and hardware problem. Perhaps DFI change

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > > What is different about these servers? > All 300 machines are mostly different. We have Dual Opteron, single P4 > with HT, single P4 without HT, Dual Xeon, Athlon 64 X2, and many > more... different mainboards etc. > > The only thing i found out is, that all these serv

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi Chuck, hi Eric, cause you both asked me nearly the same i will answer you both in one mail. > What is different about these servers? All 300 machines are mostly different. We have Dual Opteron, single P4 with HT, single P4 without HT, Dual Xeon, Athlon 64 X2, and many more... different

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hi! > > Mhm are you shure? I mean i have this problem on 5 servers - all with > the same mainboard. I cannot believe, that all 5 servers have a > hardware problem that starts on the same day. > > The other thing is - that they all work fine with 2.6.16.x and all > other

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! Mhm are you shure? I mean i have this problem on 5 servers - all with the same mainboard. I cannot believe, that all 5 servers have a hardware problem that starts on the same day. The other thing is - that they all work fine with 2.6.16.x and all other kernels before. I mean some of them

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Sorry that is not possible - cause it is a production machine. > > But i've catched the error and the files from another machine - > perhaps this helps. > > "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual > address 0288" > " printing eip:" > "c0142f

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! Sorry that is not possible - cause it is a production machine. But i've catched the error and the files from another machine - perhaps this helps. "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0288" " printing eip:" "c0142ff7" "*pde = " "Oops: 000

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > It could be, that the options are now different - cause i my first try > was to change the kernel options - if that did not help i switched > back to 2.6.16.37. > > Any idea what i can do? > > Chuck Ebbert schrieb: >> That doesn't match your oops at all. Did you use a d

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! It could be, that the options are now different - cause i my first try was to change the kernel options - if that did not help i switched back to 2.6.16.37. Any idea what i can do? Stefan Chuck Ebbert schrieb: Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: Hi! I do everything you like :-) if we can find

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hi! > > I do everything you like :-) if we can find the bug. > > So here are the files (2.6.18.6): > http://server055.de-nserver.de/filemap.o > http://server055.de-nserver.de/filemap.s > >> >> If you can, post the file mm/filemap.o from your build directory to some >> we

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-23 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! I do everything you like :-) if we can find the bug. So here are the files (2.6.18.6): http://server055.de-nserver.de/filemap.o http://server055.de-nserver.de/filemap.s Stefan Chuck Ebbert schrieb: Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also teste

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-23 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also testet the > latest 2.6.16.37) > > but with 2.6.18.6 i get these errors: > > "general protection fault: [#1]" > "Modules linked in:" > "CPU:0" > "EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI" > "EFLAGS: 00010246 (

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-23 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! I can give you an idea of the workload :-) I have the same problem on an nearly idle Server. There runs only a few cronjobs (normal Debian System crons). The load was not higher than 0.01 on this system the last 3 days and this morning it crashes with the same error. I've not tested 2.

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-22 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:07:23AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hi! > > The update of the IDE layer was in 2.6.19. I don't think it is a > hardware bug cause all these 5 machines runs fine since a few years with > 2.6.16.X and before. We switch to 2.6.18.6 on monday last week and all > ma

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! I've another idea... could it be, that it is a barrier problem? Since barriers are enabled by default from 2.6.17 on ... Stefan David Chinner schrieb: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: Hi! I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. Here is what i

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! The update of the IDE layer was in 2.6.19. I don't think it is a hardware bug cause all these 5 machines runs fine since a few years with 2.6.16.X and before. We switch to 2.6.18.6 on monday last week and all machines began to crash periodically. On friday last week we downgraded them all

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-22 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. > > Here is what i find out: > > We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel > Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset.

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. Here is what i find out: We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset. It only happens on THESE Machines. Other P4 Machines with a Tyan Mainboard or a G

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread David Chinner
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hello! > > I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also testet the > latest 2.6.16.37) > > but with 2.6.18.6 i get these errors: [ EIP is at xfs_bmap_add_extent_hole_delay+0x58d/0x59b ] [ EIP is at generic_file_buf

XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hello! I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also testet the latest 2.6.16.37) but with 2.6.18.6 i get these errors: "general protection fault: [#1]" "Modules linked in:" "CPU:0" "EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI" "EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.18.6 #1) " "EIP is at xfs_bmap_