utz> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 00:28 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >> Given that as Arjan stated Fedora and even RHEL have been using 4K stacks >> for some time now, and certainly the latter being a distribution which I >> would expect to both host a relatively large number of lvm/md/xfs and what >> stackeaters have you users and to be fairly conservative with respect to the >> chances of scribbling over kernel memory (I'm a trusting person...) it seems >> there might at this stage only be very few offenders left.
utz> I have to recompile the fedora kernel rpms (fc6, f7) with 8k utz> stacks on my i686 server. It's using NFS -> XFS -> DM -> MD utz> (raid1) -> IDE disks. With 4k stacks it crash (hang) within utz> minutes after using NFS. With 8k stacks it's rock solid. No utz> crashes within months. Does it give any useful information when it does crash? Can you make a simple test case using ram disks instead of IDE disks and then building upon that? I think I should try to do this myself at some point... John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
