Re: 2.2.7 Oops on SMP machine in __free_page() while loading executable

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:47:03 +0100 (BST)

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> I'm wondering if these previous "silent freezes" I've been having may
> actually be giving Oops's, but I just can't see them because the
> screen is blank and the kernel is too hosed to unblank it. What is

Unlikely. Man setterm - you can turn off blanking to be sure.

> it exactly that causes the console to blank after a while. I'm sure
> it's something easy, I'm just having a hard time finding it. The
> machine is running RH 5.2.

That ought to be vaguely stable SMP. 2.0.36 is about the first 2.0 kernel
that was stable under really heavy SMP loads as it fixed the IRQ re-entry
bug.

Alan

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