Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:16:54 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Tom G. Christensen" <> | Subject | 2.1.103: Got lots of "VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!" |
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Hi,
I just got a bunch of "VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!" messages in my syslog luckily I had Bill Hawes' diagnostic patch in place. Attached is the relevant part of my syslog file (5k gzipped)
When these messages appeared the machine had been up for 1h20m I was running X with 4 virtual desks, PPP-link was up, I had Xfmail 1.3, 2xwine980601/Agent 1.5, Netscape Navigator 4.04, Xisp and several rxvt's running. The machine was more sluggish (swapping) than it normally is with this setup (which is about the same every evening when I'm on the net) Also before this I had compiled a 2.1.104 kernel which may have triggered the sluggier-than-usual thing? Machine is a P133 with 48Mb of Ram and 50Mb of Swap, root is on a IBM DCAS-34330W SCSI disk, controller is Ncr53c875 based (BSD driver), I also have 3 IDE drives (swap is on one of them) Memory according to top: (if you wan't more stats next time this happens, then tell me what to do) 46Mb Main used 33Mb Swap used 900K Main free 18Mb Swap free 12Mb Shared 10Mb Cached 1.2Mb Buffer
After killing Netscape and the 2 Wine/Agent processes it stopped spewing out these messages some seconds later.
Kernel was 2.1.103 + arch386_ldt103.v2, char_select103, fork_files103, misc_net_fixes-103, mlock_103-patch, mmap_103-patch.v2, net_frag103-patch, net_tcp103-patch, nfsd_103-patch.v2, pipe_103-patch, swap_103-patch, swap_vm103-patch and vt-fix-103 Kernel was compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 and binutils 2.9.1.0.4 (glibc2 system)
I know this is an awful lot of patches, but I have had these messages happen before on similar occasions with several 2.1.9x kernels (I posted a report for 2.1.91 on the 29th of March describing similar conditions)
If there is anything more I can do to help track down this bug please just say so and I will be at your service.
-tgc
Ps. I will be off the net from Tuesday to Thursday this week.
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