[suse-sparc] OOPS on SS20: kernel 2.4.4 with patch

From: Ingo T. Storm (suse-sparc@computerbild.de)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 08:42:03 PDT

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    From: "Ingo T. Storm" <suse-sparc@computerbild.de>
    Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:42:03 +0200
    Subject: [suse-sparc] OOPS on SS20: kernel 2.4.4 with patch 
    

    Hi,

    on Jun 22nd Dan posted the location of a patch to get 2.4.4 compiled
    on sparc32.

    I have in the meantime compiled 2.4.4 with that patch and installed it
    on 2 SS20s. They OOPSed exactly once each. To be chronologically
    precise:

    The first SS20 has a quadhme with 3 intel clients attached, poundig
    each other with wget<->apache and tbench<->tbench_srv, because I want
    to use the two SS20 as routers/firewalls. I had one OOPS (null pointer
    dereference in memory.c 833 IIRC) on Jun 25th, just after I had sent
    the mail that all was running well. Since that reboot, the machine has
    been routing again happily at full throttle (100% system load, ~30000
    interrupts/sec).

    I got the second machine up two days ago, just to get some software
    built that I wanted to use once the babies are in production. Now
    today, under NO load whatsoever, the other machine has OOPSed, too,
    same story as above.

    So I am afraid these patches are a good first step, but they won't get
    us all the way.

    Now the trouble is, that I am no hacker whatsoever. BUT I have a few
    machines to offer (SS10, SS20, soon Server1000(e)) if someone should
    have the knowledge, time and ambition to try and take care of
    2.4-kernels on sparc32.

    Cheers,
    Ingo

    mfg
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