Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:20:55 +0200 (MET DST) | From | BlueFlux <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.91: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! |
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This has happened to me twice i think, just a bit worse. My config is 20 megs ram, cyrix 586, 20 megs swap. First time i was reading mails(pine 3.96) and i also had 3 bash's running.
Suddenly while switching mail, it frenzied on me. The hdd started to swap(i assume), all i could do was to switch consoles, so i did that and tried to type in 'free' to see the memory however nothing happened. I went away to eat and came back 30 minutes later and saw the f being printed from the command free. So i let it be like it was and went out for school and came back 5-6 hours later and it was _still_ swapping like a mad. all of the free command was now printed but the command was still not finished. So i did an hard reset of the computer and it was back to normal. (btw, total uptime was something like 2 days then).
The second time was once again while running pine, this time i was also running 2 BitchX(74p2) in two other consoles. I recognised the pattern of the loading so i did a hard reset after some 4 minutes this time.
Theres no logs of whats happening, no oopses, no nothing. All i can say is that this system worked perfectly before on kernel 2.1.90 and that is the only upgrade i've done in the last 1 week or so.
(on a sidenote, soundblaster support seems broken to me, but i dont know as i havent looked at it so much yet)
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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> Hi, > > This just showed up in my logs: > > Mar 29 17:25:21 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! > Mar 29 17:25:40 Atlantis last message repeated 727 times > Mar 29 17:27:53 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! > Mar 29 17:28:54 Atlantis last message repeated 202 times > Mar 29 17:28:54 Atlantis last message repeated 194 times > Mar 29 17:30:06 Atlantis last message repeated 390 times > Mar 29 17:34:35 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! > Mar 29 17:35:37 Atlantis last message repeated 2925 times > Mar 29 17:36:40 Atlantis last message repeated 5265 times > Mar 29 17:36:42 Atlantis last message repeated 389 times > Mar 29 17:47:46 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! > Mar 29 17:48:48 Atlantis last message repeated 975 times > Mar 29 17:49:33 Atlantis last message repeated 4874 times > Mar 29 17:55:32 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page! > Mar 29 17:56:31 Atlantis last message repeated 5459 times > Mar 29 17:57:22 Atlantis last message repeated 8580 times > > System had been running for 2 hours. X was up with 4 desks, XFMail (cleaning > out my kernel-mailinglist archive which was 26Mb on disk), Wine 980315 > running Agent 1.5, 3 rxvt's, top, jed, xsplay (MP3 player), dosemu 0.97.5. > I have 48Mb of RAM and 50Mb of swap, there was roughly 25Mb in swap > and about 30Mb in RAM when it happened. > The system generally felt snappy though kswapd choked the mp3-player a few > times, this happened when XFMail moved the 26Mb of mail to the Trash folder, > and also when it did a rescan of my trash folder which now contained 26 Mb of > mail (5200+ entries, MH mailfolder, causes XFMail to grow to 16Mb in RAM). > When these messages began to popup, the system started swapping/hitting the disk > like mad. It was almost impossible to switch desks in X. After closing > Wine/Agent and the mp3-player it calmed down a little. It was back to normal > after I killed X (C-A-Backspace). No oops was associated with this, and it > didn't seem to do any harm. I don't know if I can reproduce it (haven't had time > to try). > > System info: > P133, QDI MB with i430FX chipset > 48 Mb RAM > IDE only (3 drives) > SB16 > vanilla 2.1.91 compiled with pgcc-1.0.1 (-mpentium -O3 -fomit-framepointer ) > binutils-2.8.1.0.15 > > - tgc > > --- > Tom G. Christensen, Denmark > Email: tom.christensen@get2net.dk > Linux Atlantis 2.0.33 i586 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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