Re: Random SIGSEGVs and 2.6.0-test10

[davidsen@tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)]

In article <3FC559AB.7000806@sh0n.net>, Shawn Starr  <spstarr@sh0n.net> wrote:
>It's funny you mention random userland SIGSEGV's.
>
>I don't know if this some of the fallout wrt CONFIG_PREEMPT being 
>enabled or not but using vmware and running my ncurses mp3 player seems 
>to trigger an oddity:
>
>Apon using vmware, it may sometimes crap out with a internal bug # and 
>in doing so, sometimes my mp3 player will segfault for no reason. This 
>randomly happens. I do have preempt enabled. Even more odd is the fact 
>that even if I have only say 4500K left out of 576MB, there is 0 swap 
>usage. The kernel malloc fails if there is no physical memory? If I have 
>a huge swap file/disk wouldn't it malloc some of that virtual memory? 
>There is no OOM kill either happening since there's no log of that from 
>the kernel saying it did an OOM kill.
>
>I would certainly like to debug any weird oddities. My systems seem to 
>be good test grounds for such things :-)

1 - You can play with swappiness which should get swap used
2 - I doubt that's the problem
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.