From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268290AbTGLS2U (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:28:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268294AbTGLS2T (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:28:19 -0400 Received: from dm4-153.slc.aros.net ([66.219.220.153]:47046 "EHLO cyprus") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268290AbTGLS2S (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:28:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1056B4.30208@aros.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:43:00 -0600 From: Lou Langholtz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Udo Hoerhold Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: hard lockups with 2.5.75 References: <200307121425.29939.maillists@goodontoast.com> In-Reply-To: <200307121425.29939.maillists@goodontoast.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Udo Hoerhold wrote: >I switched from 2.5.73 to 2.5.75 yesterday, and I've encountered three hard >lockups in the 24 hours I've been running the new kernel. When I reset the >machine, I don't see anything unusual in the logs. > >The machine is a dual PIII with aic7899 SCSI and 3c905c network on the >motherboard. In all three cases where I locked up, there was network and >disk IO going on. I don't really have any more info. > >If anyone would like to give me a list of things to try, I'd be happy to do >some testing. > Do you already have all the kernel hacking options turned on? Particularly the CONFIG_DEBUG_* options? If not, rebuilding and getting the same lockup may provide some additional info. You may also want to try with the PREEMPT option turned on (if not aleady).