Re: oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-18 Thread Scott A. Sibert
Hi Urban. I'm connecting to a Win2K server (same share between computers). A slight change in my previous post: my dual P2 w/320MB appears to be running 2.4.0-ac9 instead of 2.4.1-pre8. The bigmem machine (1gb mem) had the oops on 2.4.0-ac9 but before reporting I thought I'd try 2.4.1-pre8

Re: oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-18 Thread Urban Widmark
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Rainer Mager reported the same thing yesterday ("Oops with 4GB memory > > setting in 2.4.0 stable" if you want to read the thread). > > I think that I found source of problem. I have no simple solution :-( > I think the source of the problem is that

Re: oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-18 Thread Petr Vandrovec
> > Ethernet is compiled into the kernel as is smbfs (not as modules). I've > > compiled this kernel with 4GB bigmem support (otherwise I only get 8xxMB > > total). > > The smbfs cache code in 2.4.0 doesn't work with bigmem. For now disable > bigmem or don't use smbfs, it's oopsing all the time.

Re: oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-17 Thread Urban Widmark
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Scott A. Sibert wrote: > I'm consistently getting an oops when accessing any smbfs mount whether > running 'ls' inside the smbfs mount or hitting TAB for filename > completion of a directory in an smbfs mount. I have another machine > (dual P2/300 w/320MB memory) that does n