Re: 2.1.57 dead

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 03 Oct 1997 10:04:19 -0400


Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> 2.1.57 dies when mounting large local filesystems (4GB and 12GB)
> after checking them during multiuser startup or when filling up swap
> running an incrementally mallocing process.
> No kernel comment follows this sudden death.

Are you locked up, or can you get an alt-scrolllock register dump? If
you can, do a few register dumps and look up the addresses in your
System.map, so we can see where the system is.

If it's looping in kswapd, I have a patch that will probably fix it
(posted a while back against 2.1.53).

Regards,
Bill