Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: All these memory problems.. | From | Michael Harnois <> | Date | 05 Jul 1997 12:58:36 -0500 |
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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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