From: Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:46:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010126194605.A923@colonel-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010125231659.A2128@colonel-panic.com> <3A70DEF1.80ECEF80@baldauf.org> <20010126092412.A508@colonel-panic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010126092412.A508@colonel-panic.com>; from pdh@colonel-panic.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:24:12AM +0000
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:24:12AM +0000, Peter Horton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:20:33AM +0100, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> >
> > Peter Horton wrote:
> >
> > > I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of
> > > data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an
> > > ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (tested with 'memtest86'
> > > for 10 hours).
> > >
> >
>
> ... this is the kinda output I get on most runs :-
>
> Linux mole-rat 2.4.1-pre10 #1 Fri Jan 26 08:48:55 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
> ...
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testt
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testu
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testv
> 9dde1bed276e32a1f9af98c87ab05978 testw
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testx
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testy
> aa6a64589748321899bab2b66f71427f testz
> mole-rat:~# cmp testw testx
> testw testx differ: char 110862337, line 433772
> mole-rat:~# cmp -i $(( 110862336 + 4096 )) testw testx
> mole-rat:~# echo $(( 110862336 % 4096 ))
> 0
>
> >
> > I cannot reproduce your behaviour in 2.4.1-pre9.
> >
>
The corruption is dependent on having a swapped on swap partition. If I
"swapoff" the corruption goes away, but it comes back when I "swapon"
again. I feel this a kernel bug, but as I'm the only person out here who's
seeing it I'm at a loss ...
P.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-26 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-25 23:16 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages Peter Horton
2001-01-26 2:28 ` Xuan Baldauf
[not found] ` <3A70DEF1.80ECEF80@baldauf.org>
2001-01-26 9:24 ` Peter Horton
2001-01-26 19:46 ` Peter Horton [this message]
2001-01-26 19:48 ` Russell King
2001-01-28 12:11 ` Peter Horton
2001-01-28 16:33 ` Andre Hedrick
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