Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 [was: Re: 2.6.9-rc2: "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:473!"]

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 20:17:14 EST


On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:49:39AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The atomic counter underflow in do_exit does suggest corruption
> elsewhere than in transcode's page table (though I'm not at all
> sure that is corrupt) - as always, it is worth giving memtest86
> a thorough run to check your memory.

Transcode should be 99% cpu bound in userspace and it shouldn't be
kernel intensive at all. It's one of the few desktop apps 99% cpu bound,
in turn the reasoning that the cpu is overheating sounds reasonable to
me. It might also be using sse2 to compress faster etc...
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