From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "Thomas Foerster" <puckwork@madz.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: "
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:40:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f5d01c0b6cb$ebcbeb40$294b82ce@connecttech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010327064904Z130600-406+4294@vger.kernel.org>
From: "Thomas Foerster" <puckwork@madz.net>
> But suddenly the box was offline. One technical assistant from our ISP
tried to reboot
> our server (he couldn't tell me if there had been any messages on the
screen), but the
> system always hangs on
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
I have a customer with the same symptom. They
have stock Mandrake 7.2 (kernel 2.2.17-21mdk)
and have installed serial-5.05 into it. The kernel
boots to the Freeing message and hangs. I
noticed ctl-alt-del still works, so I configured in
magic sysrq (Documentation/sysrq.txt). sysrq-p
allowed me to get the eip, which checking against
the System.map I find is mod_timer(). A quick
printk showed me that the kernel isn't hung,
it's in an infinite loop, with mod_timer() being
one of the calls in the loop.
YMMV, but hopefully this method can help
you find your problem.
..Stu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 6:48 URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: " Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 7:50 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-03-27 14:40 ` Stuart MacDonald [this message]
2001-03-27 16:21 ` Alan Cox
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2001-03-27 8:40 Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 9:06 Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
2001-03-27 9:12 Hen, Shmulik
2001-03-27 9:23 Thomas Foerster
[not found] <fa.it9nv9v.g08l8a@ifi.uio.no>
2001-03-27 10:07 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-03-27 11:19 ` Jonathan Morton
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