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Re: XFS forced shutdown with kernel 2.6.0

To: Claas Langbehn <claas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS forced shutdown with kernel 2.6.0
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:29:21 +0000
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:50:51AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
> Last night one of my machines running xfs shut down my /homes partition.
> 
> That machine was running Azureus (a bittorrent client) with probably
> high memory usage.
> 
> But even if the memory usage of one program is going near to 100% it
> should not force the filesystem to shutdown. Instead it should crash
> the application.
> 
> I could also think of bad memory, but we did test the SDRAM modules
> only a week ago, and they passed memtest86.
> 
> After rebooting everything was working fine, again.
> 
> So, is this a bug of xfs?

I've seen the same bug a few times lately, but only if I had previous
memory corruption due to code I was hacking on.  Can you reproduce it
without the nvidia module loaded as that is likely source of such
corruption?


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