Hi Our nfs server recently paniced under heavy nfs load. The backtrace indicates that this might be a problem with the tigon3 network driver which drives the onboard chips of the machine. The first crash under 2.6.21.1 happened after about 4 days of uptime, 2.6.21.5 already crashed after 15 Minutes. Screenshots of the resulting kernel panics are available at http://www.systemlinux.org/~maan/shots/huangho-crash-2.6.21.1.png and http://www.systemlinux.org/~maan/shots/huangho-crash-2.6.21.5.png We're now running 2.6.18.6 again which happens to be rock solid for our workload. However, this kernel now spits out zillons of messages like [55122.674290] RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x00010094 (large) I'm sure it didn't do that half a year ago when it was running for several months. The 2.6.21.x kernels did not print these messages either, but from what I understand this is due to a patch which went in somewhere between 2.6.18 and 2.6.21 and which just ratelimited the message. So something weird seems to be going on in our network and this might well be related to the 2.6.21.x crashes we are seeing. Thanks Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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