From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272554AbTHKN3w (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:29:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272562AbTHKN3w (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:29:52 -0400 Received: from hulotte.CC.UMontreal.CA ([132.204.2.135]:32949 "EHLO hulotte.cc.umontreal.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272554AbTHKN3u (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:29:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:29:28 -0400 From: Xiaogang Wang X-X-Sender: wangx@esirch2.ESI.UMontreal.CA To: Zwane Mwaikambo cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: page_alloc.c bug and heavy I/O In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Xiaogang Wang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My hardware and softare: > > > > Asus P4P800, 2GB memory, 2.8GHZ P4 with HT enabled. > > On-board 3com Giga bit network card > > 1 parallel ata 160G maxtor disk > > Nvidia Gefore4 MX440-8x graphics card (Asus V9180) > > > > Redhat 7.3, original kernel 2.4.18-3 > > You might want to update your RedHat kernel and if the problem persists > report it on their bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com). > I have updated the kernel from linux-2.4.18-3 to linux-2.4.20-19.7 with no network driver 3c2000.o compiled and with an old pci ATI rage graphics card. The kernel BUG occurs now at vmscan.c, in lieu of page_alloc.c Aug 9 20:38:19 coulson kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Aug 9 20:38:19 coulson kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:747! Aug 9 20:38:19 coulson kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Aug 9 20:38:19 coulson kernel: Aug 9 20:38:19 coulson kernel: CPU: 0 I still have no clue. Xiaogang ------------------------------------------------ Dr Xiaogang Wang Departement de chimie Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7 Tel. (514) 3436111 ext 3947 (office) FAX (514) 3437586 (office) e-mail: xiaogang.wang@umontreal.ca homepage: http://www.esi.umontreal.ca/~wangx ------------------------------------------------