PowerEdge R510 hangs on uptime > 200 days

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/05/2012 06:13 AM, Pierre Carrier wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Ruediger Gunreben
> <rgunreben at isarflow.de> wrote:
>> The dell technicians (pro support) have no clue and told us it is the
>> operating system :-( but that cannot be - the uptime is a fact which
>> cannot be ignored. The systems do their work all day and it's not
>> reasonable why it is the operating system. Other R510 weren't affected
>> (yet).
> 
> Have you excluded:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37382

note that debian's kernel has a workaround for this as of 2.6.32-36

  http://bugs.debian.org/636797

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.32-41/changelog#version2.6.32-36

  * sched: Work around sched_group::cpu_power == 0 (Ameliorates: #636797)


Note that what appears to be the same bug is also reported upstream as:

 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16991

	--dkg