IRQ deadlocks

[System Administrator]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> > Does the vm bug show up in kernel > 2.1.120 on SMP too?
> 
> I'm also curious; I know that there is a vm bug, but why does it strike
> one person and not another?  I would have thought that if there was a
> really significant problem with the aic7xxx driver and virtual memory or
> memory mapping, the driver would fail for nearly everyone using the
> driver in an SMP system.  Yet I'm running various incarnations of 2.0.33
> and 35 and aic7xxx 5.0.x and 5.1.0prex, and as of pre10 even the latter
> are awesomely stable under pretty hefty load.  Heck, even pre7 is still
> running happily after weeks on those systems I haven't gotten around to
> rebooting.
> 

Very weird indeed. like, i said, only happens when certain servers get
loaded. a kernel hacker should really address this issue.
I'm running the pre10 now with .35 so, as they say, we'll see how she
flies.

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco                           Network Administrator/Engineer
admin at intergrafix.net                        Intergrafix Internet Services

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