From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petre Bandac Subject: Re: kswapd (?!) error Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:53:27 +0300 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200210051653.27253.g38@rdsbv.ro> References: <200210050816.03883.g38@rdsbv.ro> <200210051628.50770.g38@rdsbv.ro> <02100513453307.00234@unix.pa3gcu> Reply-To: g38@rdsbv.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <02100513453307.00234@unix.pa3gcu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org "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} -- 16:51:39 up 8:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.08 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs