Jan,
Have you disabled the NMI watchdog? I had to do this on a Netfinity
x370. Try booting with: nmi_watchdog=0
Jim
> I'm testing a v2.4.9 Linux kernel with your XFS-patch applied on
> a IBM Netfinity 5500 with two Xeon-CPU's and 2Gb RAM.
> The machine runs completely well in a couple of hours but does then
> suddenly crash totaly without any error messages at all.
>
> There seems to be something concerning race conditions between
> SMP locking and file locking but we are not sure.
> Just now are the machine running with the same kernel but in
> single CPU-mode and have done so for a week or more.
> All partitions on the machine are using XFS filesystem.
>
> Are any of you on the list knowing of any problem like this
> that can get our machine run more than 6-9 hours wich are the
> maximum uptime we have reached so far.
>
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