Amul Shah on 29 Feb 2012 20:29:38 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] uptime bug in linux kernels


We're still waiting to hear back from the customer.

Amul

On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:08 AM, David Coulson wrote:

> 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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