From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B84BE0A.C9082E87@pp.inet.fi> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:25:46 +0300 From: Jari Ruusu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM problem with 2.4.8-ac9 (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Rik van Riel , Alan Cox , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Hi Alan, > > > > Another report of tasks dying on recent 2.4 kernels. > > Suspect code would be: > > - tlb optimisations in recent -ac (tasks dying with segfault) > > - swapfile.c, especially sys_swapoff (known race condition, marcelo?) > > There are known races on swapoff, but Jari is not running swapoff... Correct, not running swapoff. > > > > What would cause the swap map badness below I wouldn't know, > > maybe marcelo is more familiar with the swapfile.c code... > > Jari, > > 1) Are you using an SMP kernel? No. > 2) Did you tried with older kernels or 2.4.9? Linus' 2.4.9 survived about 7 hours of VM torture, and then I got ext2 filesystem corruption (just once, dunno if it is repeatable). No "swap offset" problems with 2.4.9 so far. Haven't tortured older kernels yet. Regards, Jari Ruusu -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/