On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:40:06PM +0100, Mattias Pettersson wrote: > Norman Gaywood wrote: > > 1. Don't run the SMP kernel. Use kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl instead. > > If you have a single processor box, you will lose hyper-threading. > > Probably not what you want. > > This sounds to me like I really shouldn't upgrade the kernel with yum... > I still have the "default" SMP kernel and I have no problems whatsoever. > Of course, theres some exploit, but I gathered it was a local exploit > and I have the server in a closed environment anyways. > > But since the problem seems to be with the "new" SMP I should keep > the old one?! The problem has been on all the FC1 SMP kernels I have used, including athlon. I've been using FC1 since December last year. You may have been lucky and not triggered the problem. Here is a script I posted to bugzilla that may trigger it for you. It simply does a mount/umount until the system hangs or you abort it. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962#c40 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
