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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:59:38 -0400
To: bogdan antonovici <bantonovici@priority.mb.ca>
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Subject: Re: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 00480020
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On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:29 AM, bogdan antonovici wrote:

> At the time of swap messages i was running a proprietary driver, my
> application and few daemons.

Looks like your driver may have written over some of the page
tables in the kernel space.

> I look on the net for some clues but it's quite confusing, i noticed
> many emails on swap_dup/swap_free error messages but i couldn't figure
> out what should i search for.

Those messages are likely due to a bug with swapping to disk
that has been in some 2.4 kernels, but I don't believe that is
the case here, since you don't have a disk or swapping enabled.


	-- Dan