Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 5 Jul 1997 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Richard A. Soderberg" <> | Subject | Re: All these memory problems.. |
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Hmm... I get the oops anf flashing color screen when I try to compile a kernel with make -j16 zImage - it happens before 3 processes have started, but that is the only thing I find can crash it. Used to work just fine, with the same kernel.
Richard
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
> Date: 05 Jul 1997 12:58:36 -0500 > From: Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> > To: "Richard A. Soderberg" <richards@dnsi.net> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: All these memory problems.. > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:57:21 -0700 (PDT), "Richard A. Soderberg" <richards@dnsi.net> said: > > > I might as well ask - are these memory problems supposed to be in > > 2.1.42? I've been badblocking disks and running make -kj 16 a > > kernel at the same time, and I've not quite seen what problems > > everyone has been talking about. I have a buffer patch, and the one > > line page_aging patch, but even before that, I never noticed any > > problems. mem=40M, I'll go try it with mem=4M eventually.. > > This seems to be a very complex problem. Some people apparently can > run the latest development kernels without incident, and some can't. I > can't. Every time I turn around I have memory problems. But they're > not consistent. Sometimes I can run 2.1.43 or 44-pre3 for two or three > hours without a crash. But yesterday, every time I got to the end of > the boot sequence, the kernel would oops and the machine would either > hang with the screen flashing many colors or reboot. Finally I did get > one line of intelligible message: "Unable to handle kernel paging > request at virtual address 18c00970." I looked over every program that > executes during boot, made sure it was the correct version and intact, > and nothing helped. Finally, in desperation, last night I compiled a > 2.0.30-pre2 with several patches on another machine and copied it over > here. The machine's run all night without incident and into this > morning. > > I really have no idea where else to look for a solution to the > problem. > > -- > Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA > mharnois@sbt.net aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org > "Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of > a sermon." --Mark Twain >
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