Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

Markus
2010-05-25T14:54:12Z

Hi.

I already thought "swapper" to be unrelated to "swap", but who knows.

The linked article is pretty old, isnt it? I used mdadm to create the
raid1 and "echo check > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action" to regulary start
the check.

Its exactly the same kernel as before (the one crashing); Still the
gentoo-kernel (vanilla+fbcondecor).

I will send a mail if anything happens.

Thanks for your time,
Markus

> From: Markus <M4rkusXXL@web.de>
> Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:09:39PM +0200
>
> > Had disabled swap (saw the string "swapper" and "page_fault"...)
> > and now the problem does not show up anymore.
>
> No, swapper is the idle task and I don't think it has anything to do
> with the oops - it simply happens to be the currently running process
> when the oops happens. And the kernel should be handling swapless
> configurations just fine for the cost of slowing down when RAM is
> depleted or OOM killing a memory hog.
>
> > Dont know, if its now "fixed", but is it possible that raid1 and
> > swap on top does not really work? Normal system usage
> > (auto-detected raid1, add swap by fstab, regularly running a check
> > and perhaps a resync).
>
> Enabling swap on raid1 might need a bit more work, see here:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5898
>
> Anyways, let me know what happens and especially if it appears again.
> Now you say it doesn't happen anymore but le me ask: is this still
> the gentoo kernel or is it a vanilla one?
>
> Thanks.