freeing unused kernel memory and the development kernel

From: Jeffrey Miller (miller@cnsvax.albany.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 19:59:16 EST

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I sent the following message to the mailing list in February concerning
the development kernel. Unfortunately, I attempted to used kernel
2.3.99pre3 and got the same results as before. I hope this information
helps. Please e-mail me directly if I can offer any additional
information.

Thanks,

Jeff

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:53:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeffrey Miller <miller@cnsvax.albany.edu>
Reply-To: Jeffrey Miller <jm9468@cnsvax.albany.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: freeing unused kernel memory and the development kernel

Hello,

I have been using linux for several years but I am not a developer or even
a programmer. As such, I have opted not to subscribe to this list but I
do feel that I should contribute by reporting this bug(?). Please CC me
with any questions, details or suggestions.

Kernel: 2.3.40 and 2.3.47 (I have not tried any other development
                                   kernels but 2.2.14 works fine for
                                   me. I waited so long to report this
                                   because I figured that someone more
                                   knowledgeable than myself would report
                                   the problem somewhere between 2.3.40
                                   and 2.3.47 but apparently not.)

Problem: the kernel seems to hang after:
                "Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed"
                (kernel 2.2.14 reports:
                "Freeing unused kernel memory: 56K freed"
                 and continues gracefully. By hang I mean that the system
                 does not continue any further. I've let it sit for
                 nearly 10 minutes. I do not receive a kernel
                 panic, OOPS or any other type of error message.)

System: RedHat 6.0 with many upgraded packages.

Compiler: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2
release)

Memory: 64 MB 72 pin EDO

CPU: AMD-K6 200 w/ multimedia extensions stepping 01
(AMD K6 Steeping B detectecd but I believe that I have a
revision after B9730xxxx)

Motherboard: Supermicro P5STE w/ intel HX chipset (bios revision 1.7)

"sh ./ver_linux" from a working 2.2.14 kernel yields the following:
                 Kernel modules 2.1.121
                 Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
                 Binutils 2.9.1.0.24
                 Linux C LIbrary 2.1.3
                 Dynamic Linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.3
                 Procps 2.0.2
                 Mount 2.9o
                 Net-tools 1.52
                 Console-tools 1999.03.02
                 Sh-utils 1.16
                 Modules Loaded (not really relevant)
obviously could not run this test witht he 2.3.47 kernel.

Please let me know if any other information would be useful but please
don't assume that I know how to collect that information :)

Again, please CC me in response to this posting.

Thanks,

Jeff Miller

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