RE: 2.4.23 is freezing my systems hard after 24-48 hours

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Jeremy Kusnetz wrote:

> > Have you tried running with the NMI watchdog? I cannot run it myself
> > because I have to disable APIC support since my motherboard is
> > buggy. To do so, try booting with "nmi_watchdog=1" or "nmi_watchdog=2"
> > depending on your configuration. Check Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt
> > for details.  Also verify that the NMI oopser works by checking for a
> > non-zero NMI count in /proc/interrupts.
> 
> Wish I knew about that earlier, unfortunately I've gone back to the
> 2.4.22 kernel as these are production boxes and I can't afford any more
> of these outages.  Besides I'm tired of getting paged at 4am :)  I wish
> I could get my development boxes to have this problem since it's not a
> big deal if they go down.

Are you using netfilter? There is a known netfilter hang problem.

What workload you have on the production boxes? (what is running, etc)

Can you show us a complete hardware list, /proc/interrupts output, 
.config and dmesg?

Trying to reproduce the oops on the development boxes with NMI watchdog 
turned on might also help a lot.



> What kind of hardware are you running?  These are Compaq DL360 G1 servers.

Philippe, can you point to your archived report message? I dont seem to 
have it around.




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