From: "Agus Budy Wuysang" <supes@theOffice.net>
> How about the other oopses, such as the "flock/poll" prob
> perhaps?
>
The bug is a race condition, ie it causes random crashes throughout the file
system code.
> Ok I will try the patch tomorrow, but the report will follows
> within the next 2 weeks (the problem occurs not very often,
> maybe once in 3-5 days... and the server is at the mill site)...
The timespan between crashes depends on the load of the server. An extremely
loaded Quad-PPro crashed several times a day, but a slightly loaded
Dual-PII didn't crash during 40 days.
Happy new year,
Manfred
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