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Date:      Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:01:30 -0600 (CST)
From:      Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
To:        tanvir@mail.org
Cc:        aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, "(Tanvir Hassan)" <tanvir@shell.wco.com>, Tanvir Hassan <tanvir@wco.com>
Subject:   Re: kernel stack corruption...aiee...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971205000157.dledford@dialnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <3487366B.29EB5AF2@mail.org>

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On 04-Dec-97 Tanvir Hassan wrote:
>Hmmm...I am using umsdos...trying to avoid repartitioning and formatting
>a new Jaz disk.

That's most likely the problem.  The last person I heard of who had this
problem quit using umsdos and everything went fine after that.

>
>Doug Ledford wrote:
>
>> The stack usage of the aic7xxx driver by itself is not all that large.
>> However, there are other large stack consumers in the linux kernel.  Last
>I
>> recall, the de4x5 driver, the umsdos filesystem driver, and maybe a few
>> others were large consumers of the stack.  It could very well be that
>some
>> combination of these is overflowing your stack page.  What filesystems do
>> you use and what network drivers?

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E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
Date: 05-Dec-97
Time: 00:01:31
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