2.6.24.x kernel crash when swap used

Peter McNeil peter at mcneils.net
Thu Apr 3 23:09:42 UTC 2008


Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 03/04/2008, Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 02/04/2008, Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>>  Any Ideas what might be happening? Surely it can't just be my
>>>>         
>> machine???
>>     
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well, if you give a little more detail about the test you're running I
>>> can try and reproduce it on similar hardware - what's "stress" ?
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>  Stress is a stress testing program, however *anything* that fills up
>> physical memory and needs swap causes the problem for me (I'm a java
>> developer so my IDE and a few other programs can do that).
>>
>>  You may have memhog installed, if you have say 2GB memory then try memhog
>> 2g and it will begin filling up memory, that should do it.
>>     
>
> Am currently sat at a x86_64 pentium D machine with 1GB ram. I did
> memhog 1g, which didn't trigger the bug you see. I also did stress
> --vm 32, which clobbered the machine while I went for coffee, but also
> didn't trigger the bug. This is with kernel  2.6.24.4-64.fc8. Tomorrow
> I can try on a pentium core 2 duo machine with 2G ram.
>
>   
Thanks for that, just installed and tried 2.6.24-64.fc8, and the same 
error is triggered on my machine.




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