Random panics with 5.3-REL, SMP

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 01:22 pm, Hogan Whittall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been running 5.3-REL for a couple of weeks now and have run into
> various problems with panics.  Initially I had a wireless card that
> wasn't supported natively, so I made use of the NDIS wrapper.  This
> worked "ok" but was buggy and the card/driver would stop talking
> on the WLAN randomly, fix was to bounce the interface and it worked
> fine for a while longer.  At one point downing the interface caused
> a panic, so I swapped out the wireless card with one supported
> natively.  Works like a charm...at least wireless does.
>
> I'm still getting random panics, however.  Doesn't appear to be
> related to anything in particular and seems to usually happen
> after being up for 1-2 days.  I've attempted to get a coredump but
> the last panic wedged while dumping to disk.  I'm going to be out of
> town for a week and won't have access to the box, but if anyone
> has experienced something like this before and knows of a fix, please
> let me know.  Here are the specs of the machine:
>
> Dell PE6450 server, 4xP3-700 Xeon, 4gb ram, system disks reside on
> a 2 disk RAID1 attached to a MegaRAID controller.  Wireless is a
> D-Link DWL-G520-B, also has Intel Pro/100 ethernet.
>
> Large storage is fiber-connected Clariion FC5700 via two QLA2200-C
> 64-bit PCI cards.
>
> Also attached via AIC-7899 controller is a DDS3 tape backup.
>
> Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I can test
> and give the results when I get back from Thanksgiving vacation.

Do you have a panic message?

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