Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:38:57 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [OOPS] related to swap? |
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Ian Kumlien wrote: >>Ian Kumlien wrote: >> >> >>>Yes, i run a tainted kernel! either live with it or ignore this mail >>>=) >> >>>starting swap lead to a deadlock within 15 mins >> >>>I have never had the energy to perform a full memtext86+ >> >>It would be useful if you could perform a memtest overnight one night, >>then run a non-patched and non-tained 2.6.16.1 kernel, and try to >>reproduce the problems. > > > As i said, i really doubt that the memory is at fault here, it has done > several passes over the memory but not all tests. I can give it a go > though, but i really doubt it'll find anything. >
If it doesn't cost you much time (ie. do it overnight) it could save some developers a lot of time.
> The kernel i run is a plain 2.6.16.1 from kernel.org (i have heard that > you can actually compile gentoos own these days) >
OK, good.
> Since this is my *cough* desktop, running it without that ability is > kinda a show stopper, thats why i included the thing above. >
But if the problem can be reproduced in 15 minutes, it shouldn't be too hard to get a trace without nvidia loaded.
> But the thing is, my laptop runs with the same compiler, "same" nvidia > driver and the "same" kernel ("same" as in 32 bit not 64 bit). > Eventhough "same" in this case usually means nothing, i doubt that one > would have a serius bug and the other wouldn't, ie it's most likley a > bug related to 64 bits or one or more of the drivers involved. > > The only errors i get in dmesg atm is: > KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c > (283) > KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c > (150) > > Which is related to TSO, from what i gather, but i can't turn off tso on > forcedeth... (i suspected this to cause corruption a while back....) >
If your network hardware or driver is flakey, try compiling a kernel without that as well before reproducing this swap problem.
Thanks, Nick
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