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Subject: Re: reproducible kernel panic
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:19:54PM -0800, Jeff Behl wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm getting a kernel panic every time I start getting traffic (~ 20Mb/s 
>>total) to two squid processes.  This was not happening with -RELEASE.  I 
>>upgraded on the advice that STABLE would decrease the %cpu spent in 
>>system, which was much higher than that spent in user.  The machine's 
>>only fucntion is as a reverse proxy (2 separate squid processes to take 
>>advante of both cpus).
>>
>>Let me know if a dump would be helpful, or if there's anything I can do 
>>to help.
>>    
>>
>
>You really need to get a debugging traceback - see the chapter on
>kernel debugging in the developers' handbook.
>
>Kris
>  
>
will do.  in the mean time, i've disable SACK (someone mentioned trying 
this on another thread for a different problem...can't remember where) 
and the machine is no longer crashing.