Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using
imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff,
on a 64MB machine, for example)
The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with
imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation
netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole
of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died
(explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole
box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active
ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.
Please email me if you need anything else (other than the
attached ksymoops output, that is).
--
John Lenton ([email protected]) -- Random fortune:
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
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John R Lenton wrote:
> Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using
> imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff,
> on a 64MB machine, for example)
>
> The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with
> imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation
> netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole
> of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died
> (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole
> box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active
> ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.
I can only confirm your problem, but I use 128MB RAM.
When using "display PIA00001.tif" my computer starts swapping furiously
and then locks *hard*. Not even sysrq works and unfortunately in my case
no oops in messages...
Hmmmm, serious? Dunno...
/Richard
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John R Lenton wrote:
> Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using
> imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff,
> on a 64MB machine, for example)
>
> The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with
> imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation
> netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole
> of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died
> (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole
> box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active
> ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.
>
> Please email me if you need anything else (other than the
> attached ksymoops output, that is).
Well some more info.
I see kswapd starting to run @ ~7% CPU.
But my swap starts getting eaten up with approx 5 MB/sec.
Any ideas anyone?
RvR something for you?
/Richard
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