Re: ptrace patch fails stress testing

John M Flinchbaugh (glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com)
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 16:25:40 -0500


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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:22:56PM -0600, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> I've got a number of machines here that crash after installing
> the recent ptrace fix. The crash only occurrs when machines=20
> are highly stressed.

i've seen suspicious behaviour since installing the ptrace patch as
well, but i couldn't really narrow it down to anything, as i have
absolutely nothing of interest in logs. i just login during the day
and notice that it had rebooted itself (uncleanly) over night at
around 3-5am. this is when the disk-intensive nightly stuff happens,
like some backups, updatedb, etc.

i was starting to suspect power issues, since i never see oopses in
logs.

this is a dual athlon box.
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