From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:57:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:57:35 -0500 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:50183 "EHLO zeus.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:57:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3E7C5241.1030206@domdv.de> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:08:33 +0100 From: Andreas Steinmetz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: 2.4.20: highmem and ldt allocation failure X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There seems to be something fishy with highmem in 2.4.20: Using XFree86 4.3.0 (Matrox G550) and KDE 3.1.1 works with the following kernel configuration options: CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set However I do get "ldt allocation failed" messages, heavy swapping and an unuseable GUI (needs to be killed from a console) just by activating the KDE blank screen screensaver with the following kernel configuration options: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_HIGHIO=y Other processes (command line) do fail too in this case (e.g. ls) with the same ldt kernel message. The system is not loaded (about 110 to 120 processes) and mostly idle when this problem occurs. The system consists of: AMD XP2400+/Asus A7V8X/1GB DDR (PC266). -- Andreas Steinmetz