Re: 2.4.18 SPARC SMP oops

[Tomas Szepe]

> The following oops looks a lot like Tomas Szepe oops, so I copied the
> subject.
> 
> I could still login with ssh, su to root and issue a reboot, which
> didn't work completely, but after a halt command I got the bootprompt 
> on the console and issued a boot. Other commands as ps or top didn't
> work.  ls did work. It happened under heavy load. The machine was running 
> for more than one day with this load.
> 
> It is a sparc 5, single processor, 128MB.

I assume this is indeed the well-known SRMMU bug. It's very easy to
reproduce actually, just stress the machine so that the load reaches
20+. For a temporary and imperfect solution, look up the relevant
thread on the aurora sparc mailing list.

Someone is supposed to have been working on a fix for some time now.

T.