Re: kswapd (?!) error

[Petre Bandac <g38@rdsbv.ro>]

"More information
   on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt"

and

"You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump."

seems like I've got some researching to do today :-)

thank you, richard, for pointing the direction,

petre


On Saturday 05 October 2002 16:45, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Saturday 05 October 2002 13:28, Petre Bandac wrote:
> > petre@k:~$ uname -a
> > Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago
> >
> > I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space
> >
> > I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I want from my system
> > is stability.
> >
> > the uptime of the machine was at that time 4 days, 21:14:36. It is my
> > home box, I run x-window on it (KDE), but at that time x-window wasn't
> > running, so the only processes runing were those required by the system,
> > plus apache plus http (below I'll list them). The only reason which comes
> > to my mind is that at the time the crash occured I was doing a ftp upload
> > on the machine @ ~200 KB (yes, kilo Bytes). If it makes any difference,
> > I'm connected through a LanCity cable modem.
>
> Then may i suggest trying the data transfer again, with of course the same
> things running as you have shown with ps below.
>
> > I shall look at the file you mentioned, richard, thank you, though I
> > would like to have some opinions on what caused this error (one of the
> > few "fatal" errors I have seen on linux machines yet).
>
> I suggest you read the whole piece about solving problems as there are
> several things you can do first before you go reading about ksymoops.
>
> > petre
> >
> >
> >   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> >     1 ?        S      0:03 init
> >     2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
> >     3 ?        SW     0:00 [kapmd]
> >     4 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
> >     5 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
> >     6 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
> >     7 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
> >     8 ?        SW     0:00 [kreiserfsd]
> >    52 ?        SW     0:00 [eth0]
> >    55 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
> >    58 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
> >    99 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
> >   101 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> >   108 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
> >   110 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1
> >   114 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd
> >   116 ?        S      0:00 gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2
> >   132 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> >   134 tty1     S      0:00 -bash
> >   135 tty2     S      0:00 -bash
> >   136 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> >   137 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> >   138 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> >   139 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/uptimed
> >   140 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> >   141 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> >   142 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> >   143 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
>
> {big snip}

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