Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 00:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> >I'll commit the obvious one-liner fix, since it might explain
>>> > _some_ problems people have seen.
>>> >
>>> >		Linus

Linus, I hate to be a killjoy on this, but I just had to reboot again, 
it was killing processes, even first the shells I had open then kmail 
and X this time, but with nothing in the logs, and when X had quit, a 
top in the launching shell reported nearly 250 megs free with nothing 
in the swap.

So I'm not getting any usefull data, the machine is dog slow:
real    17m51.460s
user    13m11.201s
sys     1m34.718s

That should have been 6 minutes maximum.

I got rc4 as the whole thing just now, maybe there was something wrong 
with the 2.6.7 base I was using.  Thats rare since I quit getting 
the .bz2's, switching to tar.gz's which seem to be the more 
dependable format here.

>>> I had to reboot late last night, out of memory and things (like
>>> mozilla (1.7.2) were dying, but nothing in the logs.
>>
>>Please wait for it to happen again, then send the contents of
>>/proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo and then do
>>
>>	su
>>	dmesg -c
>>	echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>>	dmesg > foo
>>
>>and send foo as well.

The above was not available (X wouldn't restart), and trying to print 
from any kde app causes the app, and its launcher, to exit.  So I 
don't have a paper copy and my memory isn't photographic, please 
accept my apologies on this.  Maybe rc4 will also do it.  We'll find 
out I guess.  Reboot time again.

[...]

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