Re: total lockup in .32 when doing tar over network

[Rogier Wolff]

Ville Hautamaki wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am just reporting this problem, so please forward any replies 
> and questions concernin this problem to : 
> [e-mail]
> 
> (I loosely translate Stefans bugraport to english ...)
> ----
> When doing large tar over network, it shows :
> 
> Kernel panic: skput:over: [address]
> In swapper task - not syncing
> 
> And then linux is completely locked-up.
> 
> Kernel is 2.0.32 
> ethernetcard is 3Com 3c900 Boomerang PCI (In 10Mb/Sec Ethernet)
> 32Meg's of memory (He said that it could not be that, because there is 
> much free memory)
> ----
> But the ide disks are pretty slow, so my friend thought that maybe disks 
> cannot keep up with Boomerang and buffer overruns ??

I've seen my share of these too. 

It means that a buffer of say 1000 bytes was allocated, but more than
1000 bytes are attempted to be put in there. That's highly illegal, and
will stop the machine. 

				Roger.

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