Re: [PLUG] uptime bug in linux kernels

[David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>]

News to me. Did Novell indicate a specific kernel release with the bug?

dcoulson@dribdb23:~> uptime
  8:07am  up 314 days 19:21,  6 users,  load average: 6.02, 10.19, 8.38
dcoulson@dribdb23:~> uname -a
Linux dribdb23 2.6.32.27-0.2-default #1 SMP 2010-12-29 15:03:02 +0100 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
dcoulson@dribdb23:~> cat /etc/issue

Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1  (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l).



On 2/28/12 10:31 PM, Amul Shah wrote:
> This came up at work yesterday. A customer was notified by Novell that SLES 11 could hang or crash after the uptime exceeded 200 days. We've asked the customer to find out more details. Has anyone heard of this before?
>
> Giggling for uptime and 20 days turned up these two interesting links:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/336591/how-to-fix-bug-soft-lockup-cpu0-stuck-for-17163091968s
> http://barry.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/uptime-related-server-crashes/
>
> thanks,
> Amul
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