Stability issues with 5.2.1 p4

[Brian Feldman]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:16:43PM -0400, Tom Kiblin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running a dual xeon with hyperthreading, SCSI system, that
> constantly crashes under load.  The box is doing about 40mbs of
> transfer, and I get a panic with the following output on the screen:
> 
> 
> http://advancedhosters.com/zico.JPG
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?

I have _no_ idea why it's enabled by default, because I can think of
nothing but harm coming from it, but please start by turning off the
sync-on-panic misfeature.  Try setting this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
kern.sync_on_panic=0

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