Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:58:55 +0200 | From | "Dennis J.A. Bijwaard" <> | Subject | Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! in sys_close and ext3 |
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your reply. The machine has 512MB and some more swap:
Mem: 510960k total, 504876k used, 6084k free, 1868k buffers Swap: 674640k total, 2652k used, 671988k free, 354832k cached
Machine may be slow for current standards, it has 2 * 500Mhz
Kind regards, Dennis
* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [061015 21:13]: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:56:40 +0200 > "Dennis J.A. Bijwaard" <dennis@h8922032063.dsl.speedlinq.nl> wrote: > > > I got two soft lockups on one of the CPUs just now. I'm unsure if this > > problem is in ext3, sys_close, or general kernel, so I've CC'd the > > kernel list. > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! in sys_close/fput and ext3 journaling > > Both warnings occurred when the kernel was tearing down large amounts of > pagecache via invalidate_inode_pages(). One instances was a blockdev > (probably the final close on the dvd) and the other was a regular file > (perhaps a large dvd image?) > > The CPU is slow: 500MHz pIII. How much memory does it have? > > So the kernel was doing a lot of work, on a slow CPU. Perhaps that simply > exceeded the softlockup timeout. If that's true then the machine should > have recovered. Once it did, and once it didn't. I don't know why it > didn't. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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