From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267757AbUG3RGb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:06:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267752AbUG3RFo (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:05:44 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-2.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.42]:43477 "EHLO mail-relay-2.tiscali.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267748AbUG3RFa (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:05:30 -0400 Message-ID: <410A7FD5.8010906@eidetix.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:05:25 +0200 From: "David N. Welton" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Oops in 2.6.7: swap doesn't seem to happen 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 [ Please CC replies to me. Thanks. ] Trying to rsync a big directory from one place to another. Not much free memory. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000186b printing eip: c015ef88 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#7] Modules linked in: nfs lockd sunrpc floppy sg scsi_mod capability commoncap 8139cp ohci_hcd nvidia_agp agpgart evdev ehci_hcd usbcore 8139too mii crc32 forcedeth isofs zlib_inflate ide_cd cdrom rtc unix CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.7) EIP is at __d_lookup+0x68/0x100 eax: 0000186b ebx: 0000186b ecx: 00000011 edx: f7f00000 esi: df18df28 edi: 32ae6223 ebp: f6ffff98 esp: df18de58 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process rsync (pid: 19544, threadinfo=df18c000 task=d4df2f30) Stack: c01245f2 f5e49d80 000003e8 32ae6223 00000000 f7f69834 e360102a 0000000c e360102a df18df28 f7fcd160 df18dec0 c0155b70 d3d4b050 df18dec8 00000001 e360102a df18dec0 c6ff6ed4 df18dec8 c015602c df18df28 df18dec8 df18dec0 Call Trace: [] in_group_p+0x42/0x80 [] do_lookup+0x30/0xb0 [] link_path_walk+0x43c/0x850 [] path_lookup+0x69/0x110 [] __user_walk+0x49/0x60 [] vfs_lstat+0x1c/0x60 [] sys_lstat64+0x1b/0x40 [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4ff [] error_code+0x2d/0x38 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 8b 03 0f 18 00 90 8d 6b 98 8b 7c 24 0c 39 7d 14 74 12 8b 1b What I notice is that swap is not in use: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 907512 883488 24024 0 66184 658980 -/+ buffers/cache: 158324 749188 Swap: 497972 0 497972 config and other junk available on request. Thankyou, -- David N. Welton davidw@eidetix.com