Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:39:48 +0100 | From | Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <> | Subject | Linux 2.6.10-rc3-bk15 hanged under high load (i386) |
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Hi all:
I have been experiencing kernel crashes for the last couple of weeks, and now it has happened again, but this time I have some info, hope it helps.
* Problem: box freezes (no panic or other kind of messages in the logs), under high load (loadavg up to 10, several "spamassassin" processes doing their job).
* Description: the box just hangs, nothing gets printed in the logs (at the time of the crash), SysRq+T, SysRq+M don't dump anything to disk (can't verify if they get to the local console, because X was running when the box hangs). However, some time (in the order of seconds, maybe a minute or so) before the box freezes, I get the following in the logs:
Jan 5 19:09:52 dardhal kernel: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 10000000 Jan 5 19:09:52 dardhal kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 10000000 Jan 5 19:09:52 dardhal kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 10000000 Jan 5 19:10:08 dardhal kernel: VM: killing process spamassassin Jan 5 19:10:08 dardhal kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 00730000 (I noticed my incoming email was not being tagged as spam by "spamassasin" any more, at least some of it ("spamassassin" configured to have several copies running in parallel).
* When I noticed the box didn't respond, I tried several SysRq (T, M), and then tried an emergency reboot via SysRq+S, SysRq+U, SysRq+B. It worked as expected (root file system seemed to be synced to disk, unmounted, and the box rebooted), at least upon reboot the root filesystem was clean, as it should be.
I have searched for old kernel logs, to check if some other hang in the past happened just after a message similar to the ones above. And in fact, this is the case, but I am not sure if the following was the last time the box crashed until today. What I know for sure is the following message (and the crashed it happened just after it) was also with kernel version 2.6.10-rc3-bk15, as happened today. Dec 29 20:41:38 dardhal kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 003f0000
Could it be just a defective sector under my swap partition?. Any help greatly appreciated, please ask for more information if needed.
Greetings,
-- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.10-rc3-bk15)
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