Re: [BUG] in 2.4.17 after 10 days uptime

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:24:45 -0500


On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:28:12PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Is my thinking correct ?

Yes, that's the case I was thinking of. sendfile() and tux are potential
triggers of this.

> If so, I don't see why Ed's trace BUGs at rmqueue first: It should bug at
> __free_pages_ok() PageLRU check.

Hmm, as we've discussed on irc, there are some other nasty implications of
the __free_pages code interacting with shrink_cache without this patch. I'm
not certain that explains it, but it could. Ed, have you seen this oops
again? What kind of load is the machine under?

-ben

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