Re: Screwy kernel messages in 2.1.87

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:47:42 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Sergei Viznyuk wrote:

>
> The first time I booted 2.1.87 I got in my /var/log/messages file:
>
> Feb 20 00:07:05 (none) kernel: shm_swap_in: id=1 too big. proc mem
> corrupted
> Feb 20 00:07:05 (none) kernel: shm_swap_in: id=1 too big. proc mem
> corrupted
> Feb 20 00:07:05 (none) kernel: shm_open: unused id=1 PANIC
>
> After that the system seems to be running OK
> So what's the deal?
>
> Thanks,
> Sergei
>
In ../include/linux/swap.h change SHM_SWP_TYPE to 0x20 from its present
0x40 and recompile.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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