From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267920AbUHKDmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:42:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267921AbUHKDmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:42:23 -0400 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:50385 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267920AbUHKDmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:42:14 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possible dcache BUG Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:42:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk References: <20040808113930.24ae0273.akpm@osdl.org> <200408100012.08945.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200408100012.08945.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408102342.12792.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [151.205.9.122] at Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:42:13 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 10 August 2004 00:12, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:39, Andrew Morton wrote: >>Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:24, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> >I'll commit the obvious one-liner fix, since it might explain >>> > _some_ problems people have seen. >>> > >>> > Linus Linus, I hate to be a killjoy on this, but I just had to reboot again, it was killing processes, even first the shells I had open then kmail and X this time, but with nothing in the logs, and when X had quit, a top in the launching shell reported nearly 250 megs free with nothing in the swap. So I'm not getting any usefull data, the machine is dog slow: real 17m51.460s user 13m11.201s sys 1m34.718s That should have been 6 minutes maximum. I got rc4 as the whole thing just now, maybe there was something wrong with the 2.6.7 base I was using. Thats rare since I quit getting the .bz2's, switching to tar.gz's which seem to be the more dependable format here. >>> I had to reboot late last night, out of memory and things (like >>> mozilla (1.7.2) were dying, but nothing in the logs. >> >>Please wait for it to happen again, then send the contents of >>/proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo and then do >> >> su >> dmesg -c >> echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger >> dmesg > foo >> >>and send foo as well. The above was not available (X wouldn't restart), and trying to print from any kde app causes the app, and its launcher, to exit. So I don't have a paper copy and my memory isn't photographic, please accept my apologies on this. Maybe rc4 will also do it. We'll find out I guess. Reboot time again. [...] -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.