Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
> CentOS 5 uses kernel 2.6.18-xx ... If this PF_RING thing requires a > different kernel, I think a more accurate statement would be, . > PF_RING is not supported on CentOS. Indeed. I wonder whether there exists some difference between CentOS kernel and genral kernel from www.kernel.org? If

Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ian jonhson wrote: I googled the internet and found similar bug occurred in Ubuntu on the same hardware platform: Dell poweredge. ... PowerEdge is Dell's brand name for ALL their Server products. That Ubuntu bug was specific to the i450NX chipset, which was new in 1999 and obsoleted circa

Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ian jonhson wrote: Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 CentOS 5 uses kernel 2.6.18-xx ... If this PF_RING thing requires a different kernel, I think a more accurate statement would be, PF_RING is not suppor

[CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 and installed the PF_RING-patched kernel in my CentOS5. Based on the PF_RING, I developed my program to capture the network packages. I wished it can work until the machine power is off. U