From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:57:35 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.Linu.4.10.10012140449530.878-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012131048430.19635-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > Not in my test tree. Same fault, and same trace leading up to it. no
>
> Ok.
>
> It definitely looks like a swapoff() problem.
>
> Have you ever seen the behaviour without running swapoff?
No.
> Also, can you re-create it without running swapon() (if it's something
> like a lost dirty bit, it should be possible to trigger even without the
> swapon, and I'd like to hear if that can happen - if it only happens with
> swapon() and you can't trigger it with just a swapoff() it might be a
> question of re-using some swap file stuff and delaying the writeout or
> whatever).
I'll try loading up swap, swapoff and then doing jobs that fit in ram.
(hmm.. what about inactive_clean list when you do swapoff.. might there
be pages sitting there that are [were] swap cache? reclaim_page=kaboom?)
-Mike
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012130805190.19301-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2000-12-13 17:23 ` Signal 11 - the continuing saga Linus Torvalds
2000-12-13 18:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2000-12-13 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-14 3:57 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2000-12-13 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-13 20:00 ` Gérard Roudier
2000-12-13 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-13 22:48 ` Rainer Mager
2000-12-17 23:27 ` Signal 11 - revisited Rainer Mager
2000-12-14 7:22 ` Signal 11 - the continuing saga Mike Galbraith
2000-12-13 21:36 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-11 23:24 Signal 11 Rainer Mager
2000-12-13 0:22 ` Signal 11 - the continuing saga Rainer Mager
2000-12-13 2:17 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-13 1:45 ` Rainer Mager
2000-12-13 4:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2000-12-13 9:34 ` Rainer Mager
2000-12-13 15:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2000-12-13 3:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-13 9:34 ` Rainer Mager
2000-12-13 17:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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