Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 10:28:36 +1000 | From | Tony Griffiths <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernel crash |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>I have tried to reproduce this. The circumstances weren't the most >controlled but they did overlap with what you described and I haven't seen >anything. > > What version of the kernel and patch-set did you test against?
Over the last month I've tried *EVERYTHING* I can lay my hands on and can still cause a crash VERY easily!
>So I am guessing that you are having memory corruption from some source. >Either bad ram or a bad module. > > On my DELL 1850 dual-core dual-Xeon system I did have a flaky DIMM which cause a few correctable ECC errors, but that has been replaced and still the same. My other test systems are (multiple) DELL 1425 dual-Xeon machines [2.8 or 3.0 GHz chips].
>I'm off on vacation for a week, so I won't be able to follow up. > > Have a good one...
> >Eric > >
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