Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 02:51:10 EST


GrandMasterLee wrote:
>
> ...
> > "crashes"? kernel, or application? What additional info is
> > available?
>
> Machine will panic. I've actually captured some and sent them to this
> list, but I've been told that my stack was corrupt.

OK. In your second oops trace the `swapper' process had used 5k of its
8k kernel stack processing an XFS IO completion interrupt. And I don't
think `swapper' uses much stack of its own.

If some other process happens to be using 3k of stack when the same
interrupt hits it, it's game over.

So at a guess, I'd say you're being hit by excessive stack use in
the XFS filesystem. I think the XFS team have done some work on that
recently so an upgrade may help.

Or it may be something completely different ;)
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