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On 01/14/2013 04:19 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote:

The only downtime I had in over two years was due a forced bios upgrade
by the hosting service, and I have no formal training in server
administration. Debian stable certainly works.

My personal server is on Debian too, with a similar uptime. But we recently ran into this guy on our 12.04 Ubuntu systems:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1055222

I sent a message to [Performance] a while back suggesting disabling this setting, and it's still true. But apparently if you set sched_autogroup_enabled to 0 via sysctl, you won't be able to boot because the kernel will panic before it finishes. Using the setting at all makes reboots crash. And apparently, some tasks can occasionally get into a bad state such that deallocating them causes a 0000 kernel oops in set_task_cpu. That's hilariously bad, and all due to a merge from upstream from a few months ago.

I probably wrongly attributed this to Ubuntu since it's the top result in searching for 'sched_autogroup_enabled panic', but the real point was that there doesn't seem to be any official support. We couldn't escalate this problem to anyone anywhere, except by tagging the bug report or opening our own.

Even calling canonical to ask about buying a support contract got us an automated "We'll contact you within two business days" response, which isn't exactly ideal. So we're strongly considering RHEL, because at least they would call us back, and would give us some small amount of peace knowing we could maybe get some assistance since we don't exactly have a kernel dev on staff to find things like this.

We did figure it out eventually, but it took a couple hours to figure out why the machines wouldn't boot, and all weekend to fully isolate the problem as the cause of the other crashes.

So of course, we had to ask. I know this could have (and has, in my experience) happen to any distro, but it just seems more... prevalent in Ubuntu.

Then again, our older RHEL systems crashed like it was their job when we were using our onboard Broadcom NICs. Maybe we're expecting too much.

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