Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:33 -0500 (EST) | From | linux-os <> | Subject | Re: Joe User DOS kills Linux-2.6.10 |
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:28:50AM -0500, linux-os wrote: > >> I ran badblocks (all night). There were none. It's a SCSI disk >> and it requires chunks of DMA RAM for each write. The machine >> just croaks when it gets low on RAM and tries to write to >> SCSI swap which requires RAM. > > In some other post you said that you were writing past the > end of the partition or disk. > > If the disk is fine and you have reproducible errors > then the first thing to check is whether your partition table > is correct, whether your swap signature is correct, whether > the total size of the disk is recognized correctly at boot time. >
I just executed `mkswap` on both of my swap partitions. The original swap partitions were created using very early tools. I will now try to see if I get the same error, but I can't do it now because I need a "work-break".
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