On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > happened again (vt1 and 2 echo but shells are unresponsive, vt3+ don't
> > echo) only active process was the program allocating 192mb and writing to
> > it, no find this time.
>
> Can you get the backtrace of this process?
the offending process is memeat (allocates 192*1024*1024 bytes, then
memsets it to 0, then sleeps forever, though apparently it never gets to
that part). It has to be in memset(ptr, 0, 192*1024*1024).
ksymoops from sysrq-m attached, and vmstat from just before the hang and
just after.
justin
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