kernel panic: releasing swap cache pages

Mario Lorenz (ml@vdazone.org)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:05:20 -0500 (CDT)


'llo folks,

I've been using .101 for quite a while without problems, until
yesterday when I wanted to compile mico.
At this time it happened for the first time:

kernel panic: releasing swap cache pages at 001cc700

OK, .101 is pretty old, so I upgraded to .106 today in the hope
that the problem might be gone. But no luck. So I'm writing here.

I get only this single line (with changing adresses). No complete
Oops, not an entry to the logs... The system just hangs.

This usually (but not always) happens when compiling orb/typecode.pic.o.
At that time, the c++ compiler has a size of 45MB, RSS 24MB, so the
machine is already swapping heavily.

System is a 486DX100, 32MB Ram. This machine has had hardware problems
before, until I turned off the external cache. Since then, I had no
trouble at all, so I doubt that this is a hardware problem.
I have compiled mico without problems on an old 2.0.32.

I know this is not much information, but maybe it helps somebody to
eliminate this problem...

Mario

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