Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Dec 2000 18:20:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > >Do you get any messages? I don't think you will, but it should be tested. > > I read you found the real cause so that may be bogus, but I have got two > messages while booting. The first showed up while doing the fsck of a 6 > GB file systems and killed the process (fscks of smaller partitions > completed successfully), the second occured while initializing > /dev/random and left an unkillable dd process and a stuck boot process > (I gathered this info with sysrq).
I'd still love to get the trace for these. I think I have a handle on the problems, but it would stil be helpful - dropping a dirty page really shouldn't happen except for the swap cache (and that should have been plugged by adding the ClearPageDirty()).
Linus
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