On 03/09/12 15:57, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:30 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> PS: I just noticed that severity is set to "normal". Sorry >> to say, but I disagree on the severity in this case. If our >> production environment dies after 200 days uptime, then this >> is fatal. > > Why do you say '200 days uptime'? > The division by zero came up on several servers in my environment after more than 200 days uptime each. I have never seen this bug pop up immediately. Looking at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16991 it seems that an uptime of several months before being hit by the problem is not unusual. (Novell had a 200 days uptime problem with their 2.6.32 kernel, too, even though I am not sure that this is the same problem: http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7009834&sliceId=1 ) Anyway, does the uptime matter? A crashing server in a production environment is a severe problem, regardless how long the machine was up before. >> Would you mind to adjust the severity of this bug report? > > We have what is supposed to be a workaround. Does it not work? Have > you seen any warnings? > In which Debian kernel can I find the workaround? Regards Harri
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