From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261597AbUL3KV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:21:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261605AbUL3KV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:21:57 -0500 Received: from mail.linicks.net ([217.204.244.146]:1408 "EHLO linux233.linicks.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbUL3KVz (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:21:55 -0500 From: Nick Warne To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:21:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412301021.54043.nick@linicks.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > All of them have in common the notice of some process having > > "exited with preempt_count 1" > > and all of them happened within three hours -- this is the first time > that a mainline kernel has been behaving so consistently unstable for > me, in fact. Yes, I got exactly the same - hard locked, nothing in logs. I got this from screen: kswapd exited with prempt-count 1 Kernel Panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt. My box has one IDE drive... and is gateway for my LAN using IPTABLES/NAT/MASQ. The crash happened everytime I finished playing quake2 and quit the client. I have gone back to 2.6.4 at the moment - the only kernel I can get to run 24/7/365 without a kswapd oops. I am still sussing why/wtf. Nick -- "When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, Give a whistle..."