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    SubjectRe: .17rc5 cfq slab corruption.
    On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:52:24AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
    > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:50:59PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
    >
    > > > > > > Pretty baffling... cfq has been hammered pretty thoroughly over the
    > > > > > > last months and _nothing_ has shown up except some performance anomalies
    > > > > > > that are now fixed. Since daves case (at least) seems to be
    > > > > > > use-after-free, I'll see if I can reproduce with some contrived case.
    > > > > > > I'm asuming that picasa forks and exits a lot with submitted io in
    > > > > > > between than may not have finished at exit.
    > > > > >
    > > > > > The second time I hit it, was actually during boot up.
    > > > >
    > > > > Dave, do you have any io scheduler switching going on?
    > > >
    > > > Nope, everything set to use CFQ as default, and left that way.
    > >
    > > Hrmpf ok, I had hoped perhaps something in your init scripts modified
    > > the scheduler value.
    >
    > grep doesn't show anything in init scripts, and ttbomk, hald isn't messing
    > with this. (Actually I'm seeing it trigger before that gets started
    > anyway, so that can't be it).

    In case it makes a difference to help with reproducing -- the hardware of this
    system is:

    two sata drives sda1/sdb1 in single-volume device-mapper configuration as VolGroup00-LogVol00
    pata cd drive on /dev/hdc
    usb memory stick on sdc1

    Nothing too out of the ordinary there..

    Dave

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