Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:54:01 +0000 | From | Chris Lightfoot <> | Subject | Re: kernel freeze on 2.4.32, apparently in cached_lookup |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:13:12PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: [...] > What seems strange in your report is that the kernel freezes. > The only part in cached_lookup() which could freeze IMHO is > when it calls d_lookup(), but for this, you should have a > closed loop instead of a linked list. It could happen with > some memory corruption, but you would get far more oopses > and panics than freezes. For this reason, I believe you > might have some random problem on your filesystem. Could > you run a full fsck on it ?
fsck finds the filesystem is clean; I ran memtest overnight when I built the machine and it didn't find anything. Nick's suggestion that it could be a temperature problem is also interesting; I've added another fan to the machine and I'll see if that helps matters; if not I'll try memtest again.
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