Problems with FC4 kernels 1658 and 1831 (Should be 1656)

[Peter J. Stieber]

> I have three different machines that have been having problems with 
> the last two FC4 kernels. The first is a 733 MHz Pentium III with 256 
> MB RAM and a 230 GB IDE disk. It acts an Apache web server and a 
> subversion server. The machine gets into a mode where it prints the 
> following on the console (the numbers may be a little different):
>
> Normal per-cpu:
> cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31, used 99
> cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31, used 57
> HighMem per-cpu: empty
> Free pages:           2972kB (0kB HighMem)
> Active:0 inactive:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 stable:0 free:743 slab:16038 
> mapped:22857 pagetables:22109
> DMA: free:1080kB  min:124kB low:152kB high:184kB active:120kB 
> inactive:264kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:1840433 
> all_unreclaimable? yes
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 239 239
> Normal free:1892kB  min:1916kB low:2392kB high:2872kB active:13492kB 
> inactive:13320kB present:245680kB pages_scanned:787375 
> all_unreclaimable? yes
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB 
> inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024KB 
> 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1080kB
> Normal: 1*4kB 0*8kB 2*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 4*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 
> 1*1024KB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1892kB
> HighMem: empty
> Swap cache: add 222217, delete 221977, find 1020061/1033074, race 0+2
> Free swap = 0kB
> Total swap = 524280kB
>
> Notice the machine is out of swap space so there seems to be a process 
> that is running amuck, but I can't tell what it is. I have to shut the 
> machine off to make progress. This also occurred with 1831.
>
> The second is a 733 MHz AMD Duron with 256 MB RAM. It experiences the 
> same thing with 1658.
>
> The third machine is a dual Tyan Dual Opteron machine. It experienced 
> the problem with a 1831 when trying to compile a large code.
>
> Has anyone experienced similar problems?
>
> Can someone suggest what to try to debug the problem, or another place 
> to get help.

The reference to 1658 should have been 1656.

To be specific 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 and 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4. The x86_64 SMP 
version was loaded on the dual opteron machine. The i686 version was 
used on the other machines.

Sorry,
Pete