From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Peter Santoro <psantoro@att.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.26 oops (maybe solved)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:17:06 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040724171706.GA2530@dmt.cyclades> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40FF33DE.6010307@att.net>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:26:22PM -0400, Peter Santoro wrote:
> After trying many h/w and s/w configurations, I've apparently isolated
> my instability issues to using the following the linux kernel highmem
> options: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEMIO=y. I
> have 1GB ram, so maybe one of my dimms is bad or maybe there's a highmem
> bug in the 2.4.X kernel.
>
> The crashes in my previous emails today were due to using the latest
> alsa modules (loaded, but not used by any application) with a HIGHMEM
> enabled kernel. I appear to have no problem using alsa when HIGHMEM is
> disabled. Apparently, I'm not the only one having problems with alsa
> and highmem
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13918.html).
>
> I would be willing to work with a kernel developer to better isolate
> this problem and test a patch.
Hi Peter,
Care to disable ALSA to see if the problem really only happens
when running ALSA+HIGHMEM ?
Your previous oopses in core VM code seem to be hardware problems
to me, I haven't done any deep analysis though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-22 3:26 kernel 2.4.26 oops (maybe solved) Peter Santoro
2004-07-22 4:50 ` Alex Lyashkov
2004-07-24 17:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-07-26 23:22 ` Peter Santoro
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