I have a nasty problem with two of my production servers here that I can't resolve. For various reasons, I am running 2.2.22 kernels, at this time, saying upgrade to 2.4 is not going to be a great solution. Everything is fine and stable on all the older bits of hardware. But I can make two of my servers reboot instantly, by starting ntpd (4.1.1a). I didn't think user-space processes should be able to crash the system :-) Sometimes, as it dies, I see a message "Bad pmd in pte_alloc: 00001e7". I haven't been able to identify anything specific about these two servers, except they both have Tualatin series P3's. /proc/cpuinfo reports this as model name 00/0b. That I could fix by changing arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, and adding a string to the table. One is a uniprocessor Compaq DL380G2 (all my DL380 generation 1 servers run fine). The other is a dual processor HP netserver lp2000r Other than not being able to sync the time to our NTP server, these machines run fine.... Any ideas what I'm looking for? Where in the code to start? Regards, Mike ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This communication including any file attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original transmission and its contents. Any unauthorised use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this communication including any file attachments is prohibited. It is your responsibility to scan this communication including any file attachments for viruses and other defects. To the extent permitted by law, ING and its associates will not be liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this communication including any file attachments. ********************************************************************** -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
