RE: malloc 1GB on a 2GB ia64 box fails - 17rc1 woes w/ qla1280 an d reiserfs

RE: malloc 1GB on a 2GB ia64 box fails - 17rc1 woes w/ qla1280 an d reiserfs

[Matt_Domsch]

> It didn't boot, though. qla1280 just hung after "verifying 
> chip" phase.
> Strangely, I don't see any changes to qla1280.c in -rc1.

That's a known heisenbug on ia64, and it's been around for a while, not new
to recent kernels.  Generally it disappears if you reboot, or try
introducing debugging to find it...

Thanks,
Matt

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Re: malloc 1GB on a 2GB ia64 box fails - 17rc1 woes w/ qla1280 an d reiserfs

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:47:54PM -0600, you [Matt_Domsch@Dell.com] claimed:
> > It didn't boot, though. qla1280 just hung after "verifying 
> > chip" phase.
> > Strangely, I don't see any changes to qla1280.c in -rc1.
> 
> That's a known heisenbug on ia64, and it's been around for a while, not new
> to recent kernels.  Generally it disappears if you reboot, or try
> introducing debugging to find it...

Thanks for the info. In that case I'll try to boot 17rc1 a few times more. I
never saw this with .16 nor the Mandrake default .8mdk10. I had trouble
getting the initrd working with .17rc1 (never succeeded), so I compiled ext3
and qla1280 statically as opposed to .16 where I had them as modules. I
don't know if that has anything to do with it.

The reiserfs incident is still a bit worrying...


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