Re: 2.1.124: ext2fs corruption and kernel panic

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:35:17 +0100


Hi,

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:28:25 +0300 (EEST), Matti Aarnio
<matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> said:

> I think this problem is within the memory management
> system and/or kswapd.

> I have 0.5GB RAM along with about the same amount of
> swap, and when I wrote a program that just malloced
> itself more and more memory, it did "Oops 0" within
> kswapd. The address it gave for the PC is nonsense.

For what it's worth, I've had no reports of anything like this on x86
cpus. The VM in 2.1 looks rock solid, with the single exception of the
kswapd looping resource hog issue and the eternal debate about oom
behaviour.

--Stephen

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