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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] in 2.4.17 after 10 days uptime
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:24:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020107212445.A7376@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020101145605.B3283@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201071623380.18722-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201071623380.18722-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:28:12PM -0200

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:28:12PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Is my thinking correct ?

Yes, that's the case I was thinking of.  sendfile() and tux are potential 
triggers of this.

> If so, I don't see why Ed's trace BUGs at rmqueue first: It should bug at
> __free_pages_ok() PageLRU check.

Hmm, as we've discussed on irc, there are some other nasty implications of 
the __free_pages code interacting with shrink_cache without this patch.  I'm 
not certain that explains it, but it could.  Ed, have you seen this oops 
again?  What kind of load is the machine under?

		-ben
-- 
Fish.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-08  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-01  7:18 [BUG] in 2.4.17 after 10 days uptime Ed Tomlinson
2002-01-01 19:56 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-07 18:28   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-01-08  2:24     ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-01-08  3:38       ` Ed Tomlinson

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