Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard

Georg C. F. Greve
2004-12-31T10:14:44Z

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|| On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:23:01 -0800 (PST)
|| Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

lt> Ok. This is apparently a slab cache corruption issue.

So we're one step further, it seems.

lt> Can you compile with SLAB_DEBUG and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on,
lt> since that may well catch something in the act (or it may make
lt> the machine so unusably slow that it's not funny - who knows..)

Did that last night. You are right -- it is so slow that it is no fun
at all. So I started the test run last night and went to bed.

This morning, the machine had crashed again, but unlike the noisy
crashes, when there was output on the console, this time, with
debugging compiled in, it crashed entirely silently. There was no info
on the console and none in the syslog, it just stopped.

Anything else I can try to help?

Anyone else willing to join the slab corruption bug hunt? :)

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve <greve@fsfeurope.org>
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